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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 88, 1035-1037, Copyright © 1984 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Thermodilution cardiac output studies as a cause of prosthetic valve bacterial endocarditis

GM Stiles, L Singh, G Imazaki and QR Stiles

The injectate used for thermodilution cardiac output determinations is a potential source for direct bloodstream contamination, resulting in bacterial endocarditis after cardiac operations. An experiment simulating three techniques for obtaining injectate samples showed one of them to be clearly unacceptable.




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