Ethanol Lock Therapy Markedly Reduces Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections in Adults Requiring Home Parenteral Nutrition: A Retrospective Study From a Tertiary Medical Center.

CONCLUSIONS: In this retrospective study with historical controls from the same academic center, institution of ELT in adults requiring HPN via a silicone CVC was associated with a marked (19-fold) reduction in CRBSI. PMID: 31456260 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: JPEN Journal Of Parenteral And Enteral Nutrition - August 26, 2019 Category: Nutrition Authors: Gundogan K, Dave NJ, Griffith DP, Zhao VM, McNally TA, Easley KA, Haack CI, Galloway JR, Ziegler TR Tags: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr Source Type: research