| Autor: |
Loo, S., van Heerden, P. V., Gollege, C. L., Roberts, B. L., Power, B. M. |
| Zdroj: |
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; December 1997, Vol. 25 Issue: 6 p637-639, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
We report a survey of 196 consecutive central venous catheters (CVCs) placed in 151 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) over a ten-month period. Over this time the use of a new antiseptic-impregnated triple lumen CVC (Arrowgard Blue, Arrow International Inc., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) was alternated on a bimonthly basis with the standard triple-lumen CVC (Arrow International Inc., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.).The overall rate of CVC tip infection was lower in the impregnated CVC group (15.6% vs 30.9%, P<0.05). The impregnated CVC group had a much lower cumulative infection rate when the dwell time in patients was five days or less (3.3% vs 26.9%, P<0.05). However, the difference between the cumulative infection rate was not statistically significant (P>0.05) for dwell times of 6, 7 or 8 days respectively. There was no difference in the CVC related bacteraemia rates between the two groups (3.9% vs 3.7%, P>0.05). |
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