TABLE 1.
Central venous catheter complication rates in pediatric intestinal failure: infection and dysfunction
| Type | Tunneled CVC (rate/1000 catheter days [citation]) |
PICC* (rate/1000 catheter days [citation]) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infection/CLABSI | Pre | Post | |
| Ethanol | 13.9 | 1.6 [61] | 3.95 [7] |
| 4.74 | 0.36 [88] | 2.6 [12] | |
| 5.5 | 3.1 [87] | 5.3 [11] | |
| Taurolidine | 3.7 [80] | ||
| 1.5 [58] | |||
| 2.8 [7] | |||
| 4.2 [12] | |||
| Care bundle† | |||
| 4.16 | 0.25 [72] | ||
| 12.7 | 4.3 [73] | ||
| Anticoagulation‡ | 8.6 | 1.1 [74] | |
| 4.8 | 2.9 [27] | ||
| 1.41 | 0.4 [22] | ||
| 7.9 | 4.4 [90] | ||
| Dysfunction | Pre | Post | |
| Fracture or breakage | 2.76 [7] | ||
| Ethanol | 0.48 | 4.15 [88] | 1.56 [12] |
| 1.8 | 1.53 [87] | 0.2 [11] | |
| 5.6 [80] | |||
| 3.68 [7] | |||
| 0.26 [12] | |||
| Occlusion | 3.95 [7] | ||
| 0.82 | 2.94 [88] | 7 [12] | |
| Ethanol | 0.6 | 0.3 [87] | 1 [11] |
| 6 [80] | |||
| 2.21 [7] | |||
| 5.5 [12] | |||
CLABSI = central line-associated blood stream infection; CVC = central venous catheter; PICC = peripherally inserted central catheter.
*
Reported baseline PICC rates without evaluation of intervention.
†
Ethanol usage not reported.
‡
All patients had a catheter-related thrombus, ethanol usage not reported.