Presence of protein deposits on 'cleaned' re-usable anaesthetic equipment

Anaesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1069-1072

  Miller, D M ^a   Youkhana, I ^b   Karunaratne, W U ^b   Pearce, A ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central nervous system infections: prion diseases; Complications: infective contamination; Equipment: laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROSINE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AIRWAY; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BOUGIE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCEPS; HOSPITAL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; OPERATING ROOM; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RANDOMIZATION; RECOVERY ROOM; STAINING; WARD;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; ERYTHROSINE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPES; PRION DISEASES; PROTEINS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 0034762389     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.02277.x     Document Type: Article

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