Infection rates associated with epidural indwelling catheters for seven days or longer: systematic review and meta-analysis

Wilhelm Ruppen^1,2 , Sheena Derry² , Henry J McQuay² and R Andrew Moore²

¹Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Basel, Hebelstrasse 32, CH-4031, Basel, Switzerland

²Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust, The Churchill, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK