Search results for "Catheter Infections"
April 20, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/
Decision tree can predict resistance to antibiotics commonly used for sepsis
The researchers identified factors predicting which patients with gram-negative sepsis had low probability of resistance to meropenem and which had high probability of resistance to piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime, and meropenem.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/19/2.htm
19 Jul 2017
Care bundle did not reduce CRBSIs in hemodialysis patients
A stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial of 37 renal centers in Australia found a similar rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) before and after implementation of a care bundle focused on catheter insertion, maintenance, and removal.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/care-bundle-did-not-reduce-crbsis-in-hemodialysis-patients.htm
20 Apr 2022
Recurrent C. diff, decision tree for sepsis, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/in-the-news.htm
15 Oct 2017
Careful catheter care reduces cost, complications
The U.S. spends an estimated $2 billion annually on treating catheter-associated bloodstream infections. Learn how to help lower those costs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/catheter.htm
15 Feb 2011