TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Device-Related Infections
A1  - McCulloh, Russell
A1  - Thomson, Joanna
A2  - Zaoutis, Lisa B.
A2  - Chiang, Vincent W.
PY  - 2017
T2  - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e
AB  - Invasive  medical  devices  are  commonly  used  in  hospitalized  children.  They  result  in  more  than  250,000  infections  each  year  in  the  United  States.1  A  catheter-related  bloodstream  infection  (CRBSI)  is  defined  as  bacteremia  or  fungemia  in  a  patient  with  an  intravascular  catheter  that  is  the  presumed  source  of  infection.  This  definition  belies  the  challenges  a  clinician  faces  in  accurately  diagnosing  CRBSI  in  children,  including  difficulties  in  diagnostic  testing  and  variability  in  epidemiology  based  on  age,  intravascular  device  used,  infusate  being  given,  and  underlying  clinical  condition.2  Additionally,  central  venous  catheters  (CVCs)  pose  other  infectious  complications  aside  from  CRBSI,  including  local  infection  at  exit  sites,  and  they  can  become  secondarily  infected  through  seeding  of  bacteria  due  to  bacteremia  originating  from  infection  at  a  distant  site.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146119413
ER  -