The microbiology of indwelling pleural catheter infections.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Sethi, Dheeraj; Webber, Mark; Mishra, Eleanor K
- Source
- CTS: Clinical & Translational Science. Aug2023, Vol. 16 Issue 8, p1287-1288. 2p.
- Subject
- *IMPLANTABLE catheters
*MICROBIOLOGY
*INFECTION
*CATHETER-related infections
- Language
- ISSN
- 1752-8054
We are impressed by the robust proportion meta-analysis recently conducted by Wang et al.[1] The increasing use of indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) in pleural disease is predicated upon a sound understanding of any ensuing complications. Their overall finding of total infections occurring in 5.7% (95% CI 4.0-7.7) of IPCs is consistent with rates reported elsewhere[2] and we commend the authors for further studying types of infection and estimating that pleural infections develop in 1.3% of patients (95% CI 0.6-2.2). [Extracted from the article]