Automated surgical equipment requires routine disinfection of vacuum control manifold to prevent postoperative endophthalmitis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 685-690

  Miño De Kaspar, Herminia ^a   Grasbon, Thomas ^a   Kampik, Anselm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTAMINATION; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; DISINFECTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VACUUM; VITRECTOMY;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; BACTERIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DISINFECTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EYE INFECTIONS; FUNGI; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VACUUM; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0342748534     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)00178-5     Document Type: Article

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