Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections, 2002

These guidelines have been developed for practitioners who insert catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home health-care settings. This report was prepared by a working group comprising members from professional organizations representing the disciplines of critical care medicine, infectious diseases, health-care infection control, surgery, anesthesiology, interventional radiology, pulmonary medicine, pediatric medicine, and nursing.

Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections, 2002

Name Date Type Size
MMWR Recommendations and Reports, Volume 51, Number RR-10   PDF
Erratum to pg. 29, Appendix B 8/16/02 PDF
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Appendix A
Examples of Clinical Definitions for Catheter-Related Infections
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Appendix B (Erratum)
Summary of Recommended Frequency of Replacements for Catheters, Dressings, Administration Sets, and Fluids
8/16/02 HTML
Date last modified: September 12,, 2005
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Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases

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