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Prospective study of bacteremia after cardiac catheterization
Shmuel Banai1, Vera Selitser, Andre Keren
1The Heiden Department of Cardiology and The Division of Infectious Diseases, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. banais@mail.netvision.net.il
The American Journal of Cardiology
|October 15, 2003
Abstract:
Nine hundred sixty consecutive cardiac catheterization procedures were studied prospectively for the presence of periprocedural bacteremia. Overall, among 960 procedures, only 4 were associated with clinically significant bacteremia. All 4 were related to the intravenous line and none to the cardiac procedure itself. Clinically nonsignificant bacteremias were correlated with procedural duration, multiple skin punctures, use of multiple balloons, and obesity.