Abstract
Sir: Although arterial catheter-related infection (AC-RI) has been amply reported [1, 2], we have found no study reporting the micro-organisms responsible according to femoral and radial access. We therefore analyzed this as a part of our recently published study [3], such as we have lately done with central venous catheter-related infection [4]. An initial analysis of 1,231 arterial catheters inserted during 18months revealed no significant differences in the incidence of arterial catheter-related bloodstream infections (AC-RBSI) and of arterial catheter-related local infections (ACRLI) according to catheter site [5]. In a second analysis of 2,949 arterial catheters inserted over 3 years, however, we found that the incidence
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