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Central venous catheters - BMJ

The mean central venous catheter bloodstream infection (CVC-BSI) rate documented in a large study of 215 UK intensive care units (ICUs) that submitted data for up to 20 months was 2.0 per 1000 central venous catheter days. 19 In a 2011 UK national point prevalence survey on health - care associated infections and antimicrobial use, 40% of

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