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CLABSI or Central Line Assembled Bloodstream Infection?
Culture from the central line N1 venus came back as staph epi. Would this now be classified as a CLABSI? So this is probably catheter colonization. The team listened to your advice about being probably a colonization. Patient remains stable. They were able to remove the line because there weren't no longer invasive pressers. But the ICU resident wanted to ask, what is a good recommendation for a line should be removed? Would, I know this gets brought up on rounds a lot and talking to the ICU team, what is kind of your recommendations on how to answer these type of questions? Yeah. We need to be talking about the presence of these lines