Journal article
Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.27(1), pp.34-37
01/2006
DOI: 10.1086/500001
PMID: 16418984
Abstract
Groin wound infection (GWI) after femoral artery catheterization is unusual. However, several reports of GWI associated with the use of a Perclose device appear in the surgical literature.
A case-control study.
We pooled 23 cases and 83 controls from a university hospital and a community medical center.
A case was defined as a patient who developed a GWI after a femoral artery catheterization. At the university hospital, 3 controls were randomly selected from the at-risk population and matched to each case by time of procedure only (within 2 weeks). At the community medical center, 4 controls were selected and matched to each case by time of procedure (within 2 weeks), sex, and age (within 5 years).
We considered several covariates, including age, sex, body mass index, medical conditions, Perclose use, hematoma formation, and antithrombotic therapy. In a multivariate model, only hematoma formation (odds ratio, 68.8; 95% confidence interval, 12.1-391.4) and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa platelet inhibitor therapy (odds ratio, 6.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-33.6) were statistically significant predictors of GWI; Perclose use (odds ratio, 0.9; 95% confidence interval, 0.2-3.7) was not a statistically significant predictor of GWI. However, most of the hematomas (15/17) formed after procedures during which a Perclose device was used.
Perclose use did not have any additional effect on GWI risk beyond the effect that hematoma formation had.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study
- Creators
- Philip M Polgreen - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA. philip-polgreen@uiowa.eduDaniel J DiekemaJeff VandebergR Todd WiblinYi Yi ChenSherry DavidDianne RasmusNicole GerdtsAngelena RossLouis KatzLoreen A Herwaldt
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.27(1), pp.34-37
- DOI
- 10.1086/500001
- PMID
- 16418984
- NLM abbreviation
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Pathology; Injury Prevention Research Center; General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983986375602771
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