Investigations into the sterility of manually assembled extracorporeal circuits with vented reservoirs

Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 125-129

  Searles, Bruce ^a   O'Leary, Colleen E ^b   Pettit, Dave ^b   Alexander, Scott ^b   Picone, Anthony ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*

Author keywords

Dry set up; Extracorporeal circuits; Sterility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; RESERVOIR;

EID: 0033383177     PISSN: 00221058     EISSN: 29698960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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