Titrated intravenous opioids from the same syringe: An infection risk?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-35

  Taylor, Monika ^a   Bourke, Jodie ^a   Andersen, Mark ^a   Davey, Richard ^a   Kelly, Anne Maree ^a   Guthrie, Byron ^a  

^a WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Immunosuppression; Intravenous; Opioid

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAMINAR FLOW; NURSE; PAIN; PHARMACY; SYRINGE; TIME;

ANALGESIA; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NARCOTICS; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SYRINGES;

EID: 0031022057     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.1.33     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Kelly AM, Davey R, Guthrie B, Anderson M, Taylor M, Bourke J, et al. Are titrated intravenous opioids an infection risk? Emerg Med 1995;7.117.
2. Computing Resource Centre. Stata reference manual: release 3, 5th ed. Santa Monica, CA, 1992.