Abstract

CESPEDES RODRIGUEZ, Héctor Rafael; CAMACHO BLANCO, Odesa; RODRIGUEZ BENCOMO, Dania  and  RIVERO, Yamina. Infections related with the use of venous catheter in pediatrics critical care unit. AMC [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.5, pp.24-33. ISSN 1025-0255.

A descriptive study about infective complications related to the use of venous central catheters, was performed; in 65 patients from one month of birth to 15 years-old, both sex, admitted at the Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit of the Pediatrics University Hospital of Camagüey, from January1998 to December2004. The infective complications more frequent were: the colonization of the catheter’s tip in 30 patients and the sepsis related with the catheter in 20 patients, with a higher frequency of femoral insertions of the catheter (50, 7 %) when the boarding duration was longer than six days. Bacteria of the group of Enterobacteriaceae with 23 isolations were the pathogens more isolated. Klebsiella sp. with 13 isolations turned out the most frequently isolated germ independent of the anatomic site of the catheter’s insertions.

Keywords : BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAUSALITY; CATHETERIZATION CENTRAL VENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE; PEDIATRICS.

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