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- Title
A state of the art review on optimal practices to prevent, recognize, and manage complications associated with intravascular devices in the critically ill.
- Authors
Timsit, Jean-François; Rupp, Mark; Bouza, Emilio; Chopra, Vineet; Kärpänen, Tarja; Laupland, Kevin; Lisboa, Thiago; Mermel, Leonard; Mimoz, Olivier; Parienti, Jean-Jacques; Poulakou, Garyphalia; Souweine, Bertrand; Zingg, Walter
- Abstract
Intravascular catheters are inserted into almost all critically ill patients. This review provides up-to-date insight into available knowledge on epidemiology and diagnosis of complications of central vein and arterial catheters in ICU. It discusses the optimal therapy of catheter-related infections and thrombosis. Prevention of complications is a multidisciplinary task that combines both improvement of the process of care and introduction of new technologies. We emphasize the main component of the prevention strategies that should be used in critical care and propose areas of future investigation in this field.
- Subjects
ARTERIAL catheters; CRITICALLY ill; CATASTROPHIC illness; EPIDEMIOLOGY; VEINS; CATHETER-related infections; THROMBOSIS; EQUIPMENT &; supplies; PATIENTS; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2018, Vol 44, Issue 6, p742
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-018-5212-y