Obesity in regional anesthesia – a risk factor for peripheral catheter‐related infections

Hagen Bomberg, Noemi Albert, Kai Schmitt, Stefan Gräber, Paul Kessler, Thorsten Steinfeldt, W. Hering, A. Gottschalk, Thomas Standl, Jan Stork,

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2015 · 32 citations · 22 references

Abstract

This retrospective cohort study suggests that obesity is an independent risk factor for peripheral, but not neuraxial, catheter-related infections.

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