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Management
- Send cultures of any drainage and send blood cultures
- Remove catheter, without exchange over a wire
- Insert replacement catheter at distant site
- Antibiotics
- Cover Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, and adjust based on culture results
- Without bacteremia, treat for 10 to 14 days
- With bacteremia, see central line-associated bloodstream infection for management
