Contribution of Patient Care Technicians to the Prevention of External Ventricular Drain Infection: A Retrospective Study

This study retrospectively screened patients who underwent EVD procedures in our medical center from January 2012 to June 2018. Clinical characteristics including EVD-related infection rates of patients with or without PCTs were compared. RESULTS: We analyzed 234 patients in total. There were 26 EVD infection cases, and the overall infection rate was 11.1%. There were 122 patients who were given additional care by PCTs. They were elder (58.1 ± 13.1 vs 49.9 ± 17.0 years old, P
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