Reducing the risk of prion transmission in anaesthesia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 527-529

  Wilkes, A R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREATHING APPARATUS; CERAMICS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; FILTER; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYGIENE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RECIPIENT; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES;

EID: 19944405779     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04179.x     Document Type: Editorial

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