Blood cultures in neonates with percutaneous central venous catheters.
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 62 (6) , 621-623
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.62.6.621
Abstract
We compared the results of 74 pairs of blood cultures obtained simultaneously every two weeks from a peripheral vein and a percutaneously inserted central venous catheter in 38 newborns. Three babies (7.9%) had bacteraemia. In two of these the central catheter was colonised 48 hours beforehand.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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