Use of condoms as blade covers during laryngoscopy, a method to reduce possible cross infection among patients

Journal of Infection

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-123

  Chen, Ying Hui ^a,b   Wong, Kar Lok ^c   Shieh, Ja Ping ^a   Chuang, Yin Ching ^a   Yang, Yi Chueh ^a   Cheung So, Edmund ^a,b,c,d  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacterial culture; Blood stains; Sterilization

Indexed keywords

LATEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONDOM; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; RISK REDUCTION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CONDOMS; CROSS INFECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; OCCULT BLOOD; OPERATING ROOMS;

EID: 31344432643     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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