JAC Advance Access originally published online on December 1, 2004
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005 55(1):90-94; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh488
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JAC vol.55 no.1 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; all rights reserved
Treatment of long-term intravascular catheter-related bacteraemia with antibiotic lock: randomized, placebo-controlled trial
1 Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2 Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven; 3 Oncological Surgery, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
* Corresponding author. Tel: +31-104639222; Fax: +31-104633875; Email: b.rijnders{at}erasmusmc.nl
Objectives: The use of an antibiotic lock (AB-lock) for the treatment of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) has been suggested, but randomized trials have never been performed.
Methods: A randomized, blinded, multicentre trial was set up to compare an AB-lock—containing vancomycin for Gram-positive or ceftazidime for Gram-negative bacteria—with placebo, in addition to parenteral AB therapy. We included only CRBSI from a long-term intravascular device (LTID) whether tunnelled or totally implanted.
Results: During 30 months, 174 patients with an LTID and bacteraemia were evaluated, of whom 85 had a CRBSI. Forty-six patients were included. Frequent reasons for exclusion were: catheter not vacant for >8–12 h/day for the AB-lock (n =10); yeast infection or mixed Gram-positive/negative infections (n =13); catheter removal preferred by the treating physician (n =7); and CRBSI <14 days after insertion or pocket/tunnel infection (n =10). Forty-four patients met the criteria for modified intention-to-treat analysis. The primary endpoint was failure to cure the CRBSI or relapse with the same strain. On study day 180 by Kaplan–Meier analysis, this occurred in 33% (seven of 21) in the AB-lock arm and in 57% (13 of 23) in the placebo arm (hazard ratio 0.55, P =0.10). A relapse with the same strain occurred in 9/23 with the placebo and 3/21 with the AB-lock (P =0.06).
Conclusion: Future studies should take into account the barriers to the use of AB-lock observed in this study. Most importantly, shorter lock dwell times and broader spectrum locks (e.g. antiseptic) should be investigated to target a larger patient population.
Keywords: infections , sepsis , treatment , ceftazidime , vancomycin
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