Mathieu Acquier, Valérie De Précigout, Yahsou Delmas, Véronique Dubois, Fatima M'Zali, Arnaud Zabala, Renaud De-La-Faille, Sébastien Rubin, Charles Cazanave, Mathilde Puges, Christian Combe, Hannah Kaminski
Patients in hemodialysis on central venous catheter as vascular access are at risk of infections. Catheter-related bloodstream infection is one of the most serious catheter-complications in hemodialysis patients. Its clinical and microbiological diagnosis is challenging. The implementation of empiric antibiotic therapy is based on old recommendations proposing the combination of a molecule targeting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and a betalactamin active on P. aeruginosa, and also adapting this probabilistic treatment by carrying out a microbiological register on a local scale, which is rarely done...
April 2022: Néphrologie & Thérapeutique