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Treatment of Hickman Catheter Sepsis Using Antibiotic Lock Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elizabeth A. Krzywda ,
Deborah A. Andris ,
Charles E. Edmiston Jr  and
Edward J. Quebbeman
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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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1995 , pp. 596 - 598
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995 

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