RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Septicaemia from prolonged intravenous infusions.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 886
OP 889
DO 10.1136/adc.50.11.886
VO 50
IS 11
A1 M L Thong
A1 L K Tay
YR 1975
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/50/11/886.abstract
AB Four cases of septicaemia in children were traced to contaminated intravenous infusions and volume control sets. In each case Pseudomonas cepacia was isolated from multiple blood cultures and from intravenous fluid within the volume control set. The first patient died of septicaemia after a long and complicated postoperative period. The other three patients received appropriate antibiotics after removal of the contaminated intravenous sets and they recovered within 2 weeks.