Should non-bacteraemic patients with a colonized catheter receive antimicrobial therapy? | Zendy

Viviana de Egea | Zendy; María Guembe | Zendy; A. Rodríguez-Borlado | Zendy; María Jesús Pérez-Granda | Zendy; Carlos SánchezCarrillo | Zendy; Emilio Bouza | Zendy

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Should non-bacteraemic patients with a colonized catheter receive antimicrobial therapy?

Author(s) -

Viviana de Egea,

María Guembe,

A. Rodríguez-Borlado,

María Jesús Pérez-Granda,

Carlos SánchezCarrillo,

Emilio Bouza

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2017.07.014

Subject(s) - medicine , bacteremia , antimicrobial , concomitant , blood culture , catheter , central venous catheter , retrospective cohort study , surgery , antibiotics , antibiotic therapy , biology , microbiology and biotechnology

The impact of antimicrobial therapy on the outcomes of patients with colonized catheters and no bacteraemia has not been assessed. This study assessed whether targeted antibiotic therapy is related to a poor outcome in patients with positive cultures of blood drawn through a non-tunnelled central venous catheter (CVC) and without concomitant bacteraemia.

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