Preventing Vascular Catheter-Related Infections: Current Controversies

Preventing vascular catheter-related infections: current controversies.

Prevention of vascular catheter-related infection remains an important priority. This review focuses on salient controversies regarding optimal preventive methods. Intensity of surveillance for nosocomial infections was the single most important predictor of prevention in the Study of the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC). Used suboptimally by most hospitals in the SENIC study, s...

New materials and devices for preventing catheter-related infections

Catheters are the leading source of bloodstream infections for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Comprehensive unit-based programs have proven to be effective in decreasing catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSIs). ICU rates of CR-BSI higher than 2 per 1,000 catheter-days are no longer acceptable. The locally adapted list of preventive measures should include skin antisepsis w...

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Hemodialysis Tunneled Catheter-Related Infections

Catheter-related bloodstream infections, exit-site infections, and tunnel infections are common complications related to hemodialysis central venous catheter use. The various definitions of catheter-related infections are reviewed, and various preventive strategies are discussed. Treatment options, for both empiric and definitive infections, including antibiotic locks and systemic antibiotics, ...

Antibiotic Bladder Irrigation in Preventing and Reducing Chronic Urinary Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)

California, Davis Student Health Center (UCDSHC) has made prescribing NTF preferred for acute cystitis since 2001 as TMP/SMX has community resistance rates of ~20%. Ciprofloxacin is the second line agent at UCDSHC. Methods. UCDSHC reviewed all urine cultures and susceptibilities for clinical and epidemiologic purposes. Susceptibility results were gathered from the UCDSHC microbiology laboratory...