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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harita, Shimpei
• Hamaguchi, Jun
• Shimizu, Keiki
• Honda, Hitoshi

Titel

Respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and central-line-associated bloodstream infection: Experience at a tertiary-care center during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Ist Teil von

• Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2022-01, Vol.43 (1), p.113-115

Ort / Verlag

United States: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Dressing failure, local contamination, and local bacterial overgrowth create suboptimal conditions for the catheterization site. [...]prolonged catheterization, which can also contribute to ECMO-CLABSI development, has been observed in patients with COVID-19. [...]ECMO-CLABSI may not have caused the death of the patients with ECMO. Because relatively few patients were enrolled, further studies enrolling a larger cohort are needed to verify these findings. In the present study, we determined the incidence of ECMO-CLABSI at a tertiary-care center in Japan. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, demand for ECMO use has been increasing, and patients with COVID-19 requiring ECMO placement may be at risk of developing ECMO-CLABSI.