Antibiotic coated tubes could reduce infection rates of children in intensive care

Coating the plastic tubing that is used to give life-saving drugs and fluids into a child’s vein with antibiotics could help to prevent bloodstream infections developing in children in intensive care, finds research funded by the NIHR HTA Programme. Reducing the number of these infections would mean fewer children in intensive care would suffer consequences...
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - Category: American Health Source Type: news