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Author Re: Use Silver and turn Blue!
Skeptic

2006-06-26, 4:28 pm


"BrentB" <borgersbrent@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1151337152.842654.262770@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> and you're utterly incapable of understanding how the catheter in this
> thread works. Need me to explain it to you?


ok, I was staying out of it, but enough is enough -

It's a silver coated catheter. There is NO EVIDENCE it has any systemic
abilities. It may and probably does reduce local colonization rates on the
catheter. That's a local effect, not systemic. I fully understand how the
company claims their catheter works, more so than you and others since this
topic came up several months ago and I personally contacted them. No
evidence of any systemic benefit. None. It is not different than an
antibiotic coated catheter. I don't recall how it compared in terms of
cost.


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