In 1998, the year of FDA approval, a study at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center showed infection rates fell 70% when doctors switched from using uncoated latex catheters to Rochester's new device.

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Dr Amber Young, consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the South West Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and clinical adviser to the project said when a child with a small burn develops a high temperature there is no easy way of knowing if the child has a serious bacterial infection, or simply a cough or cold.

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