Impact of an Educational Intervention Implanted in a Neurological Intensive Care Unit on Rates of Infection Related to External Ventricular Drains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Camacho, Eduardo Fernandes ^a   Boszczowski, Ícaro ^a   Freire, Maristela Pinheiro ^a   Pinto, Fernando Campos Gomes ^a   Guimaraes, Thais ^a   Teixeira, Manuel Jacobsen ^a   Costa, Silvia Figueiredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATHETER CARE; CATHETER INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUROLOGICAL CATHETER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULITIS; CHILD; DRAINAGE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84873517633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050708     Document Type: Article

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