A patient experienced a central line associated blood stream infection (clabsi) which was reported to be due to a one-link neutral luer activated device (no further detail was provided).The patient was admitted to the coronary care unit (ccu) from another hospital with intra-aortic balloon pump (iabp) and femoral pa catheter in place.A right internal jugular pulmonary artery (ij pa) line was placed in the ccu on admission and the femoral pa line was promptly discontinued.Four days later, the patient developed a fever and rigors.The next day, both the pa line and iabp were removed.On an unreported date, the patient was treated with unspecified (reported as ¿appropriated¿) antibiotics for clabsi (doses, frequencies, and routes were not reported).No further detail was provided regarding the patient¿s outcome from the event.No additional information is available.
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