Environmental and body contamination through aerosols produced by high-speed cutters in lumbar spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 2156-2159

  Nogler, Michael ^a,b   Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^a   Ogon, Michael ^a   Mayr, Eckart ^a   Bach, Christian ^a   Wimmer, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contamination risk; High speed cutter; Surgical team

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AEROSOLS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CADAVER; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOMS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0035478258     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200110010-00023     Document Type: Article

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