Prolonged Catheter Use and Infection in Regional Anesthesia: A Retrospective Registry Analysis

Hagen Bomberg¹, Ina Bayer, Stefan Wagenpfeil+17

• ¹From the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine (H.B., I.B., T.V., A.R.), and the Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics (S.W.), Saarland University, University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany; the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Orthopedic University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany (P.K.); the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, Philipps University Marburg, Germany (H.W.); the Department of Anesthesia, Intensive and Palliative Care Medicine, Academic Hospital Solingen, Germany (T.S.); the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Friederikenstift Hannover, Germany (A.G.); the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Calw-Nagold, Germany (J.D.); the Department of Anesthesiology, St. Marien-Hospital, Siegen, Germany (W.H.); the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum and Campus Mitte, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany (J.B., C.S.); the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University and Rehabilitation Clinics, Ulm, Germany (B.K., J.W.); the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, HELIOS Hospital Erfurt, Germany (S.L.-B.); the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jena University Hospital, Germany (W.M.); the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (O.V., T.K.); and the Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio (D.I.S.).