Static electricity as a mechanism of bacterial transfer during endoscopic surgery

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-399

  Becker, R ^a,b   Kristjanson, A ^a   Waller, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Infection; Laparoscopy; Nosocomial; Static electricity; Videomonitor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SURGICAL GLOVE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0030118350     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00191623     Document Type: Article

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