Central and peripheral venous lines-associated blood stream infections in the critically ill surgical patients

Table 2 Summary results of the selected studies

Study, Year	Catheter Type Investigated	Population Size	Venous Catheter Number	Age (yr)	Sex (M/F)	APACHE II/III Score	Antibiotic Prophylaxis	Indwelling time: CRBSI group (Non-CRBSI group)	Colonisation (% total)	CRBSI (% total)
Bijma, 1999 [7]	CVC	128	n = 206	54	59/128	20 (II)	-	-	44 (21.36%)^b	15 (7.28%)^b
		140	n = 194	54	72/140	19 (II)	-	-	25 (12.88%)	8 (4.12%)
Dimick, 2001 [8]/2003 [9]	PAC + CVC	260	n = 506	65	127/133	64 (III)	-	5 (3)	60 (8.4%)	17 (2.0%)^c
Sandoe, 2003 [10]	AC + CVC	179	n = 175	-	-	-	Yes	6 (4)	27 (15.1%)^d	0 (0%)
Pawar, 2004 [11]	CVC	1314	n = 1314^a	58.4	1166/148	6.9 (II)	Yes	24.5 (6.1)	-	35 (2.7%)
Guillou, 2011 [12]	CVC	7557	n = 7557^a	65.1	5403/2154	-	-	-	653 (8.6%)	40 (0.5%)
Gunst, 2011 [13]	CVC	121	n = 263	47	69/52	22 (II)	Yes	25 (16)	-	13 (4.9%)
	PICC		n = 37				No	19 (14)	-	1 (2.7%)
Miyagaki, 2011 [14]	PICC	25	n = 25^a	65.6	24/1	-	-	-	-	1 (4%)

Abbreviations: CVC: Central venous catheter; PICC: Peripherally inserted central catheter; AC: Arterial catheter; PAC: Pulmonary artery catheter; CRBSI : Catheter related bloodstream infection; APACHE: Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation.
Key:^a Assumed patient number = catheter number ^b Bijma’s pre-intervention CVC colonisation and CRBSI data was excluded from pooled data. ^c Mixed PAC + CVC data so excluded from pooled data. ^d Mixed colonisation data (including 4 arterial catheters) excluded from pooled data.

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