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Most of the attention on catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSI) in the ICU focuses on central venous catheters (CVC), a bias that likely derives, in part, from the 2002 Centers for Disease Control guidelines which stipulate that arterial catheters (AC) have "low infection rates—rarely associated with bloodstream infections.

Arterial Line Insertions in the ICU: To Gown or Not To Gown?