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Intravenous Tubing Containing Burettes Can Be Safely Changed at 72 Hour Intervals
- Source :
- Europe PubMed Central
- Publication Year :
- 1987
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1987.
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Abstract
- No studies testing the safety of changing intravenous systems containing in-line burettes at 72 hours in an intensive care setting have been performed. Patients entering a medical or surgical intensive care unit were alternatively assigned to have any line with an in-line burette changed at either 48 hour (105 patients) or 72 hour (65 patients) intervals. Daily quantitative cultures with a 2 ml aliquot of burette fluid were obtained. Contaminated burette fluid was detected in 60 of 1181 (5.0%, 95% confidence interval, 3.7% to 6.3%) samples from the burettes changed at 48 hour intervals, and in 40 of 901 (4.4%, 95% confidence interval, 3.0% to 5.8%) samples from 72 hour interval burettes. Significant bacterial contamination of burette fluid, defined as ten or more colonies per milliliter, occurred in only seven (0.6%) cultures from patients in the 48 hour interval group compared with only three (0.3%) cultures in the 72 hour group. None of the contaminated burette fluids was associated with a primary bacteremia. Change of inline burettes in patients in intensive care at 72-hour intervals is safe and should result in substantial cost savings to hospitals.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Time Factors
business.industry
Surgical intensive care unit
Liter
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Intravenous tubing
Confidence interval
Catheterization
Burette
Cost savings
Intensive Care Units
Sepsis
Anesthesia
Intensive care
Humans
Medicine
Female
In patient
Infusions, Intravenous
business
Aged
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23279451 and 01959417
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Infection Control
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....776d39d1e244b5e5db37461e2a3c0d27