Lower risk of peripheral venous catheter-related bloodstream infection by hand insertion.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little is known about the bloodstream infection (BSI) risk associated with short-term peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) and no large study investigated the insertion site-related risk for PVC-BSI.

Methods

We performed a cohort study at the University of Geneva Hospitals using the prospective hospital-wide BSI surveillance database. We analyzed the association between insertion site and risk of PVC-BSI on the upper extremity using univariable and multivariable marginal Cox models.

Results

Between 2016 and 2020, utilization of 403'206 peripheral venous catheters were prospectively recorded in a 2000-bed hospital consortium with ten sites. Twenty-seven percent of PVC (n = 109'686) were inserted in the hand. After adjustment for confounding factors, hand ins

SUBMITTER: Buetti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature