Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections among patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy traced to breaks in infection control and possible extrinsic contamination by propofol

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 420-425

  Kuehnert, Matthew J ^a   Webb, Risa M ^a   Jochimsen, Elise M ^b   Hancock, Gary A ^a   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Hand, Sheryl ^c   Currier, Mary ^a   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FEVER; HAND; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; PROPOFOL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030752844     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199708000-00031     Document Type: Article

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