Bacterial contamination of anaesthetists' hands by personal mobile phone and fixed phone use in the operating theatre

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 904-906

  Jeske, H C ^a   Tiefenthaler, W ^a   Hohlrieder, M ^a   Hinterberger, G ^a   Benzer, Arnulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; TELEPHONE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; BACTERIA; CELLULAR PHONE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HAND; HUMANS; HYGIENE; OPERATING ROOMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 34547889084     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05172.x     Document Type: Article

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