Impact of different catheter lock strategies on bacterial colonization of permanent central venous hemodialysis catheters.
- Erb S Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland.
- Widmer AF
- Tschudin-Sutter S
- Neff U
- Fischer M
- Dickenmann M
- Grosse P
- 2013-11-15
Published in:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology. - 2013
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anticoagulants
Catheter-Related Infections
Catheters, Indwelling
Central Venous Catheters
Citric Acid
Colony Count, Microbial
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Renal Dialysis
Sodium Chloride
English
Thirty-nine hemodialysis patients with permanent central venous catheters were analyzed for bacterial catheter colonization comparing different catheter-lock strategies. The closed needleless Tego connector with sodium chloride lock solution was significantly more frequently colonized with bacteria than the standard catheter caps with antimicrobially active citrate lock solution (odds ratio, 0.22 [95% confidence interval, 0.07-0.71]; P = .011).
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- English
- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.1086/673987
- PMID 24225618
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/159836
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