Assessment of central venous catheter colonization using surveillance culture of withdrawn connectors and insertion site skin

BACKGROUND: Culture of catheter hubs and skin surrounding the catheter entry site has a negative predictive value for catheter tip colonization. However, manipulation of the hub for culture requires the hubs to be swabbed, introducing potential dislodging of biofilm and subsequent migration of micro...

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Publié dans:Crit Care
Auteurs principaux: Pérez-Granda, María Jesús, Guembe, María, Cruces, Raquel, Barrio, José María, Bouza, Emilio
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736709/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26838274
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1201-0
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