Guidelines for the Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

Guidelines for the management of intravascular catheter-related infections.

These guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American College of Critical Care Medicine (for the Society of Critical Care Medicine), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America contain recommendations for the management of adults and children with, and diagnosis of infections related to, peripheral and nontunneled central venous catheters (CVCs), pulmo...

Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections.

BACKGROUND Although many catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are preventable, measures to reduce these infections are not uniformly implemented. OBJECTIVE To update an existing evidenced-based guideline that promotes strategies to prevent CRBSIs. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE database, conference proceedings, and bibliographies of review articles and book chapters were searched for ...

Management of intravascular catheter-related infections.

Intravascular catheter-related infections: advances in diagnosis, prevention, and management.

Indwelling vascular catheters are a leading source of bloodstream infections in critically ill patients and cancer patients. Because clinical diagnostic criteria are either insensitive or non-specific, such infections are often overdiagnosed, resulting in unnecessary and wasteful removal of the catheter. Catheter-sparing diagnostic methods, such as differential quantitative blood cultures and t...

Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These guidelines have been developed for practitioners who insert catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home health-care settings. This report was prepared by a working group comprising members from professional organizations representing the disciplines of critical care medicine, infectious diseases, health-care infection ...