[Microbiological findings in children with an indwelling central venous catheter].

Introduction: Besides their obvious advantages for the patient, central venous catheters (CVC) also carry the risk of possible infectious complications. The purpose of our investigation was to carry out a microbiological evaluation of a 5-year set of paediatric patients with indwelling CVCs.

Patients And Methods: In the group were 218 CVCs inserted to 165 children over a period of 5 years.