Importance of early appropriate intervention including antibiotics and wound care for device-related infection in patients with left ventricular assist device

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 907-910

  Hieda, M ^a   Sata, M ^a   Seguchi, O ^a   Yanase, M ^a   Murata, Y ^a   Sato, T ^a   Sunami, H ^a   Nakajima, S ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Hori, Y ^a   Wada, K ^a   Hata, H ^a   Fujita, T ^a   Kobayashi, J ^a   Nakatani, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DORIPENEM; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; TEICOPLANIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL OCCLUSIVE DRESSING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANNULA INFECTION; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; DEVICE INFECTION; DRIVE LINE INFECTION; EXIT SITE INFECTION; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OCCLUSIVE DRESSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SKIN INCISION; WOUND CARE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; MICROBIOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARBAPENEMS; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEICOPLANIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84899574511     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.11.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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