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Gan To Kagaku Ryoho
; 34 Suppl 2: 221-2, 2007 Dec.
Artigo
em Japonês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20443268
RESUMO
The all-in-one catheter package for intravenous hyperalimentation provided an easy handling to the medical staff. However, the package is the cause for a medical cost increase. In order to reduce the medical cost, the incidence of bacterial contamination on the catheter was compared between the two groups: one group is to exchange the catheter once a week and the other is to exchange the catheter twice a week. No bacterial contamination was found in both groups. The result suggested that once a week catheter exchange was tolerable against bacterial contamination.