Central Line Infection

Preventing infection from catheters

Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, discusses how to ensure that central line catheters do not cause infections in hospital patients. LIJ has not had a single catheter infection for 8 months.

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