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1. Line Sepsis in Home Parenteral Nutrition Patients: Are There Socioeconomic Risk Factors? A Canadian Study
ABSTRACT. Background: Line sepsis complicates home parenteral nutrition...factors that may contribute to line sepsis and compared 2 HPN programs with...British Columbia [BC]) in terms of line sepsis and patient satisfaction. Methods...
November 1, 2005; JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

2. Roundtable Summit to Formulate Recommendations for the Prevention of Line Sepsis.(Discussion)
...Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis to Advocate Plan for Patients and...Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis will bring together leading medical...community and consumers to prevent line sepsis. This preventable infection develops...
September 25, 2008; Business Wire

3. Adherence to protocol cuts line sepsis in NICU.(Infectious Diseases)(neonatal intensive care unit)
...unclear whether the decrease in line sepsis was related to the choice of antiseptic...protocol is one way of decreasing line sepsis. His prospective trial compared...catheters (60% to 31%). The decline in line sepsis occurred despite high CVL device...
August 1, 2007; Pediatric News

4. Healthcare Industry Leaders Call for Improved Prevention of Catheter Infections.
...Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis, released a policy statement outlining...professionals to reduce the incidence of line sepsis, a potentially fatal hospital-acquired...compliance and data transparency Line sepsis is largely considered preventable...
October 3, 2008; Business Wire

5. Opiate and sedative dependence predicts a poor outcome for patients receiving home parenteral nutrition
...same 12-month period. Episodes of line sepsis and other complications were documented...significantly more episodes of central line sepsis (p = .0007) as well as other complications...temazepam (n = 3). Episodes of central line sepsis were significantly higher in the...
November 1, 1997; JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

6. Re: J-Tip Wire Entrapment in a Vena Cava Filter During Central Line Placement
...We are all quite aware of the common complications associated with central line placement, such as bleeding, catheter line sepsis, and pneumothorax, however, I recently experienced a rare and underreported complication: the entrapment of a J-tip...
May 1, 2006; The American Surgeon

7. Telehealth Videoconferencing: Improving Home Parenteral Nutrition Patient Care to Rural Areas of Ontario, Canada
...also documented the incidence of line sepsis and other medical HPN complications...was 11/13 (84.6%). The average line sepsis rate for the 13 patients was 0...of care. In particular, because line sepsis has been documented to be the most...
May 1, 2007; JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

8. The medical and financial costs associated with termination of a nutrition support nurse
...Indicators studied included inappropriate TPN, central venous line sepsis, TPN wastage, and estimates of preventable costs. Results...CI], -.06 to 8.3; p = .069). Risk of TPN-associated line sepsis increased from 8.8% of patients when the nurse was present...
November 1, 2000; JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

9. Peripherally inserted central catheters for parenteral nutrition: A comparison with centrally inserted catheters
...major complications associated with CVADs, thrombosis and line sepsis, were compared over three different time periods: 1988-19...CVAD for providing PN. PICCs do not result in increased line sepsis or thrombosis but have an increased incidence of local...
March 1, 1999; JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

10. Quality of life after intestinal transplantation
...complications.1 When patients develop TPN-related liver disease, lose venous access sites, or have recurrent or fungal line sepsis, their risk of mortality matches or exceeds the risk of mortality after intestinal transplantation. In preoperative...
December 1, 2004; Progress in Transplantation