Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Mar 2005
Review[Updating of the 12th consensus conference of the Société de Réanimation de langue française (SRLF): catheter related infections in the intensive care unit].
Concerning catheter-related infections, many studies have been conducted until the last consensus conference of the Sociétéde réanimation de langue française (SRLF) in 1994. This text is the synthesis of the considerable amount of work performed by the experts of the society to review recent studies. The experts' texts as well as extensive bibliography are available at http://www.srlf.org.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Mar 2005
[Regionalization of obstetric services and anaesthetic workload in a tertiary level perinatal unit].
Evaluation of anaesthetic workload associated with care of high-risk pregnant women (i.e. patients transferred to a referral perinatal center). ⋯ Comparison of the workload associated with high-risk patients and normal pregnant women confirms the need for increased anaesthetic staffing in referral perinatal centers and provides a basis for better understanding the distribution of anaesthetic requirements in each perinatal network.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Mar 2005
[Epidemiology of catheter-related infections in intensive care unit].
Catheter-related infections remain an important cause of nosocomial infection in the ICU. They include colonization of the device, exit-site infection and catheter-related bloodstream infection with or without bacteraemia. Data from clinical studies and surveillance networks should be compared cautiously due to important methodological differences and wide variations of device-utilization ratio between units or countries. ⋯ Numerous risk factors have been identified. Some of them could be used to stratify patients according to risk of catheter-related infection and to allow more valid comparison between ICU's performances. Participation of French ICUs to the recent national surveillance networks (REA RAISIN and REACAT RAISIN) should be encouraged.