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Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages e216-e219 , March 2010

Infections associated with indwelling ventriculostomy catheters in a teaching hospital

Hsin Chi
- Committee of Infection Control, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, 1, Lane 303, Changsha Street, Taitung, Taiwan
- Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 25433535; fax: +886 2 25433642.
Kuan-Yu Chang
- Committee of Infection Control, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, 1, Lane 303, Changsha Street, Taitung, Taiwan
- Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, Taitung, Taiwan
Hong-Chang Chang
- Committee of Infection Control, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, 1, Lane 303, Changsha Street, Taitung, Taiwan
- Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, Taitung, Taiwan
Nan-Chang Chiu
- Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan
Fu-Yuan Huang
- Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 18 June 2008 ,Revised 12 December 2008 ,Accepted 21 April 2009.

Kaplan–Meier analysis of the cumulative survival of indwelling catheters. The dashed line (---) represents re-insertion catheters and the solid line (—) represents first insertion catheters. Catheters

Kaplan–Meier analysis of the cumulative survival of indwelling catheters. The dashed line (---) represents re-insertion catheters and the solid line (—) represents first insertion catheters. Catheters removed because they were no longer needed before the infection occurred were treated as censored and recorded as +. No infections occurred before day 7 or after day 36. Among the re-insertion catheters, the number of infected catheters rose sharply after the second week.
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