Central venous catheter sepsis with weekly catheter change in paediatric burn patients: an analysis of 221 catheters

• Published in: Burns Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 127 - 129
• Main Authors: Sheridan, R.L., Weber, J.M., Peterson, H.F., Tompkins, R.G.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.03.1995; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Burns - therapy; Catheterization, Central Venous - adverse effects; Catheterization, Central Venous - instrumentation; Child; Emergency and intensive care: burns; Equipment Contamination; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Life Tables; Medical sciences; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sepsis - epidemiology; Sepsis - microbiology; Stem Cells; Time Factors; Wound Infection - epidemiology; Wound Infection - microbiology; Burn; Human; Infectious risk; Catheter; Asepsy; Trauma; Statistical study; Long term; Contamination; Central vein

To document the risk of catheter sepsis associated with central venous catheter changes every 7 days in paediatric burn patients, an analysis of data collected prospectively on 234 such catheters was performed. During an 18-month period there were 301 acutely burned children admitted to a regional p...