CVAD failure and complication (catheter-associated bloodstream infection, local infection ... the CVAD ‘wings’, which are absent in tunnelled cuffed CVADs, such as Hickman or Broviac catheters. The ...

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or catheter hub in the absence of clinical signs of infection Exit-site infection Microbiologically documented: exudates at catheter exit site yields a microorganism with or without concomitant ...

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Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...