A prospective, randomized evaluation of the effect of silver impregnated subcutaneous cuffs for preventing tunneled chronic venous access catheter infections in cancer patients.

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to evaluate the effect of a silver-impregnated cuff on the incidence of catheter-related bacteremia/fungemia or tunnel tract infection in cancer patients with chronic dual-lumen tunneled venous access catheters. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Infection is a frequent and...

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Main Authors: Groeger, J S, Lucas, A B, Coit, D, LaQuaglia, M, Brown, A E, Turnbull, A, Exelby, P
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 1993
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242932/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8343002
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