Infectious complications of percutaneous central venous catheterization in pediatric patients: a Spanish multicenter study

Autor: Andrés Concha-Torre, M. Ángeles García-Teresa, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Francisco Cambra-Lasaosa, M. Ángel Delgado Domínguez, Jorge Roqueta-Mas, Juan Casado-Flores
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Intensive care medicine. 33(3)
ISSN: 0342-4642
Popis: Analysis of infectious complications and risk factors in percutaneous central venous catheters. One-year observational, prospective, multicenter study (1998–1999). Twenty Spanish pediatric intensive care units. Eight hundred thirty-two children aged 0–14 years. None. One thousand ninety-two catheters were analyzed. Seventy-four (6.81%) catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) were found. The CRBSI rate was 6.4 per 1,000 CVC days (95% CI 5.0–8.0). Risk factors for CRBSI were weight under 8 kg (p
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