Pyrogenic reactions in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization associated with contaminated glass medicine cups

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-18

  Cookson, Susan Temporado ^a   Nora Jr , James J ^b   Kithas, Joseph A ^b   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Bond, Walter W ^a   Miller, Phyllis H ^a   Monahan, Jan ^b   Hoffman, Richard E ^c   Curiel, Tyler ^b   Kaufman, Dimitri ^b   Groves, Bertron M ^b   Jarvis, William R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Colorado Dept Pub Hlth Environ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endotoxin; Fever; Pyrogenic reaction

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; ENDOTOXIN; GLASS; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MEGLUMINE IOXAGLATE PLUS SODIUM IOXAGLATE; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTOXEMIA; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STERILIZATION;

EID: 0030868956     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199709)42:1<12::AID-CCD5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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