Prevention of Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection: Back to Basics?
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Prevention of catheter-related blood stream infection: back to basics?
BACKGROUND Central venous catheter (CVC)-related infections are a substantial problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). Our infection control team initiated the routine use of antiseptic-coated (chlorhexidine-silver sulfadiazine; Chx-SS) CVCs in our adult ICUs to reduce catheter-associated (CA) and catheter-related (CR) blood stream infection (BSI) as we implemented other educational and best p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surgical Infections
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1096-2964,1557-8674
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2009.082