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Estimates of their use in the United States alone suggest that over five million CVCs are inserted annually [ 1 2 ] . Although CVCs have significant benefits in many clinical situations, the increase in their use over the last 20 years has been associated with at least a doubling of resultant nosocomial infections [ 3 4 ] . A number of factors may contribute to the risk of catheter related infections (CRI) [ 5 6 7 8 9 ] . Although a common problem, the descriptive epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk factors and best means of diagnosing CRI have not yet been fully elucidated.
Patients with acute respiratory failure are at risk for a number of nosocomial events.
The median length of hospital stay of patients with community-acquired blood stream infection was 5 days compared with 8.5 days for patients with nosocomial blood stream infection ( P = 0.0477).
(1) Nosocomial pneumonia : defined as those infections diagnosed after the first 48h of a patients hospitalization, neither present or incubating at admission, or meeting CDC criteria.
It is a leading cause of nosocomial pneumonia and surgical site and bloodstream infections [ 9 ] ; however, the EPA considered it to be a low risk to public health with land applied sewage sludges [ 13 ] .