Treatment of Hickman Catheter Sepsis Using Antibiotic Lock Technique
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 16 (10) , 596-598
- https://doi.org/10.1086/647015
Abstract
Antibiotic lock therapy, an alternative treatment for Hickman catheter sepsis, was evaluated in six recipients of prolonged outpatient intravenous therapy. Twenty-two episodes of catheter sepsis were identified, involving coagulase-negative staphylococci (11), gram-negative bacilli (3), gram-positive bacilli (1), yeast (4), and mixed bacteria or fungi (3). In a select group of patients, treatment was successful 92% of the time.Keywords
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