… One gram of vancomycin is recommended prior to surgery to prevent early exit colonization
… or exit, the dressing should be changed earlier. To delay bacterial colonization of the exit site …

… We hypothesized that peritonitis would be caused by the same organisms because of
contamination of the patient’s hands and equipment when performing exit site care, the presence …

… In our experience, only a few patients do not use a dressing at their exit site. Even centers
that offer this possibility state that many patients feel unsafe without dressing. It is noteworthy …

… to the exit site. The exit site could be directed to any of the four quadrants, but only four were
directed … In our experience, patients with infections of the exit site had a higher incidence of …

… had perfect or good exit site, 1,163 patients got score less than 4. … the patients into two
groups, patients with problematic exit site (PES group, 84 cases) and patients with good exit-site (…

… patients from 8 hospitals were randomized into 1 of 2 exit-site care regimes to evaluate their
effect on rate of exitsite … ; Group 2 simply cleansed the exit site with nondisinfectant soap and …

… Baseline clinical data, including age, gender, PD duration, and underlying primary cause
of kidney disease were obtained by chart review. The nursing care methods of the exit site (ES) …

… Any new protocol for exit site care thus should be compared with exit site mupirocin … to
the exit site was equivalent to mupirocin cream in preventing S. aureus exit site infections and …

… The exitsite should be round and the tissue should fit snugly around the catheter. Sutures …
exit-site increase the risk of infection and should be avoided. The downward-directed exit-site …

… infectious susceptibility of patients, especially in association with exit site trauma. Colonizing
… We recommend the use of exit site dressing be individualized and left to patient preference. …