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Catheter Securement Devices

Healthcare workers have customarily used tape or sutures to secure medical catheters. Typically, they…

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Catheter-related Blood Stream Infection (CRBSI)

Bloodstream infection in which the CVC is identified as the source of infection based…

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Cauda equina

The filum terminale plus the roots of the spinal nerves below the first lumbar…

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Caudad (caudal)

Toward, or nearer to, the tail or coccyx.

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CBSPD

Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc.

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CDAD

Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea

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CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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CDI

Clostridium difficile Infection

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Cdyn

Dynamic Lung Compliance

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CE

Continuing Education

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Celiac plexus

Nerve Location: behind stomach, in front of aorta at the level of the origin…

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Cell-mediated immunity (CMI)

A type of immunity that utilizes white blood cells instead of antibodies or complement.…

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