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The microbiological and clinical outcome of guide wire exchanged versus newly inserted antimicrobial surface treated central venous catheters

INTRODUCTION: The management of suspected central venous catheter (CVC)-related sepsis by guide wire exchange (GWX) is not recommended. However, GWX for new antimicrobial surface treated (AST) triple lumen CVCs has never been studied. We aimed to compare the microbiological outcome of triple lumen A...

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Autores principales: Parbat, Nisha, Sherry, Norelle, Bellomo, Rinaldo, Schneider, Antoine G, Glassford, Neil J, Johnson, Paul DR, Bailey, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24004883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc12867