[The risk of sepsis induced via the deep venous approach]. / Riesgo de sepsis inducida por abordaje venoso profundo.

In order to determine the sepsis induced by the practice of canalizing the deep venous sector in revascularized patients, 43 catheters removed from 43 patients were cultured; no sepsis induced by this practice was found and 13 catheters had positive cultures, which amounted to 30.3% of the sample under study; five catheters (38.4%) with positive cultures belonged to patients who showed no sepsis; eight catheters (61.5%) with positive cultures corresponded to patients who showed septic focci. The average stay was 4.07 days. The germ most frequently found was negative coagulase staphylococcus.