The CVC and CRBSI: don't use it and lose it!

K B Laupland¹, D Koulenti^{2

3}, C Schwebel^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Royal Inland Hospital, 311 Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2T1, Canada. klaupland@gmail.com.
² 2nd Critical Care Department, Attiko' University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Medical Intensive Care Unit, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France.
⁵ Integrated Research Center, Inserm U1039, Radiopharmaceutical Bioclinical Mixed Research Unit, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France.

Editorial

K B Laupland et al. Intensive Care Med. 2018 Feb.

. 2018 Feb;44(2):238-240.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-5033-4. Epub 2017 Dec 26.

K B Laupland¹, D Koulenti^{2

3}, C Schwebel^{4

5}

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Royal Inland Hospital, 311 Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2T1, Canada. klaupland@gmail.com.
² 2nd Critical Care Department, Attiko' University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Medical Intensive Care Unit, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France.
⁵ Integrated Research Center, Inserm U1039, Radiopharmaceutical Bioclinical Mixed Research Unit, University of Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France.

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