Abstract | OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in pediatric patients with and without chylothorax after cardiac surgery and identify risk factors that predict those patients at highest risk for developing a central line-associated bloodstream infection. DESIGN: Retrospective single-center cohort study. SETTING: A PICU located within a tertiary-care academic pediatric hospital. PATIENTS: All pediatric patients admitted to the PICU after cardiac surgery between 2008 and 2014. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Stephanie G Waterhouse, Jeffrey E Vergales, Mark R Conaway, Laura Lee |
Journal | Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
(Pediatr Crit Care Med)
Vol. 19
Issue 9
Pg. 810-815
(09 2018)
ISSN: 1529-7535 [Print] United States |
PMID | 29923938
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Bacteremia
(epidemiology)
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures
(adverse effects)
- Case-Control Studies
- Catheter-Related Infections
(epidemiology)
- Catheters, Indwelling
(adverse effects)
- Central Venous Catheters
(adverse effects)
- Chylothorax
(epidemiology)
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
- Male
- Postoperative Complications
(epidemiology)
- Retrospective Studies
- Risk Factors
- Time Factors
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