Treatment of home parenteral nutrition related catheter infections with catheter retention
G Udvarhelyi, I Bíró, T Mészárosné, É Straub, C Fejér, J Futó, L Topa, P Sahin · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2015 · Heft 05
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Zusammenfassung
Introduction: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a life-saving treatment of patients with permanent bowel disorders. HPN-associated bloodstream infection is one of the serious complications of HPN, a determining factor of mortality. Between 2010 and 2011 seven patients were treated in our own centre and during 1000 days of care we encountered 0.51 catheter infections. Between 2012 and 2014 we had 11 patients, the infection rate was 1.58. As the infection rate was increasing we compiled a catheter reservation protocol in line with the literature to facilitate long term central vein integrity preservation and to r…
