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Efficacy of subcutaneous tunneling for prevention of bacterial colonization of femoral central venous catheters in critically ill children

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2002

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Elhanan Nahum, Itzhak Levy, Jacob Katz, Zmira Samra, Shai Ashkenazi, Josef Ben‐Ari, Tommy Schonfeld, Ovadia Dagan

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Abstract

Subcutaneous tunneling of CVCs in the femoral site is a safe procedure and decreases significantly the rate of CVC colonization in critically ill children.

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