Guidelines for the Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

By L. A. Mermel, B. Farr, R. Sherertz, I. Raad, N. O’grady, JoAnn S. Harris, D. Craven. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2001

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Surgery

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• A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)a (2013, methodology): “clusions to be made about the relative merits of these various diagnostic techniques [8, 9].”
• Candida Infections of Medical Devices (2004, methodology): “When using quantitative blood cultures, the growth of 5- to 10-fold-greater colony counts from blood samples obtained via the CVC than from peripherally drawn blood samples can accurately relate the episode of bloodstream infection to the indwelling catheter (68), particularly a tunneled catheter.”
• Antifungal Susceptibility of Candida Biofilms: Unique Efficacy of Amphotericin B Lipid Formulations and Echinocandins (2002, background): “Antifungal therapy alone is insufficient for cure; affected devices generally need to be removed (34, 36, 37, 47).”
• Relationship between Vancomycin MIC and Failure among Patients with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Treated with Vancomycin (2008, background): “Of the six patients with microbiologic failure, the source of the MRSA bloodstream infection was an intravenous catheter for five patients, and the intravenous catheter was removed within 4 days of the index MRSA blood culture in all cases (7, 15).”
• Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections. (2005, background): “Most entry-site infections can be treated effectively with appropriate antimicrobial therapy without catheter removal [164, 165, 236].”
• American Burn Association Consensus Conference to Define Sepsis and Infection in Burns (2007, background): “Tenderness, erythema, or undue induration more than 2 cm from the catheter exit site is an exit site infection.(68) Also, purulence or necrosis at the exit site is an exit site infection.”
• Antimicrobial surface functionalization of plastic catheters by silver nanoparticles. (2008, background): “The overwhelming majority of nosocomial infections associated with catheter use are caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci such as Staphylococcus epidermidis.(1,4,7) Infections caused by S.”
• A bedside scoring system (“Candida score”) for early antifungal treatment in nonneutropenic critically ill patients with Candida colonization* (2006, background): “, fever, chills, and/or hypotension), and no apparent source for bloodstream infection (with the exception of the catheter), as well as a positive catheter culture, either semiquantitative ( 15 colony-forming units [cfu] per catheter segment) or quantitative ( 10(2) cfu per catheter segment), whereb”
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2009, methodology): “Patients with suppurative thrombophlebitis due to CRBSI should receive a minimum of 3–4 weeks of antimicrobial therapy B-III How are persistent bloodstream infection and infective endocarditis managed?”
• Epidemiology and Predictors of Mortality in Cases of Candida Bloodstream Infection: Results from Population-Based Surveillance, Barcelona, Spain, from 2002 to 2003 (2005, background): “blood samples obtained through the catheter and a peripheral vein (19).”
• Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen (2008, background): “parapsilosis usually require removal for fungal clearance, although some single-case studies report successful treatment of biofilm-associated infections with antifungal therapy alone (146, 176, 190, 228).”