Bundle of measures for external cerebral ventricular drainage-associated ventriculitis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-73

  Chatzi, Maria ^a   Karvouniaris, Marios ^a   Makris, Demosthenes ^a   Tsimitrea, Eleni ^a   Gatos, Charalampos ^a   Tasiou, Anastasia ^a   Mantzarlis, Kostas ^a   Fountas, Kostas N ^a   Zakynthinos, Epaminondas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

bundle; disability; infection; intensive care unit; ventriculitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRAINAGE CATHETER; EXTERNAL CEREBRAL VENTRICULAR DRAINAGE ASSOCIATED VENTRICULITIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891506483     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829a70a5     Document Type: Article

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