Zero tolerance to shunt infections: Can it be achieved?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-91

  Choksey, M S ^a,b   Malik, I A ^b  

^a WALSGRAVE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTISEPSIS; APPENDICITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0347125209     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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