[The risk of sepsis induced via the deep venous approach].

Abstract

In order to determine the sepsis induced by the practice of canalizing the deep venous sector in revascularized patients, 43 catheters removed from 43 patients were cultured; no sepsis induced by this practice was found and 13 catheters had positive cultures, which amounted to 30.3% of the sample under study; five catheters (38.4%) with positive cultures belonged to patients who showed no sepsis; eight catheters (61.5%) with positive cultures corresponded to patients who showed septic focci. The average stay was 4.07 days. The germ most frequently found was negative coagulase staphylococcus.