Skin: The first battlefield

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 933-935

  Prielipp, Richard C ^a   Sherertz, Robert J ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN;

EID: 0141569810     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000082997.90002.9A     Document Type: Editorial

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