Operating room ventilation with laminar airflow shows no protective effect on the surgical site infection rate in orthopedic and abdominal surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 695-700

  Brandt, Christian ^a,c   Hott, Uwe ^a   Sohr, Dorit ^a   Daschner, Franz ^b   Gastmeier, Petra ^a   Rüden, Henning ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR CONDITIONING; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FILTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HERNIORRHAPHY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION RATE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; ROOM VENTILATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; SURGICAL WOUND; TURBULENT FLOW; WOUND INFECTION; ABDOMEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; FILTRATION; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; INSTRUMENTATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; STANDARD;

ABDOMEN; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FILTRATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; OPERATING ROOMS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENTILATION;

EID: 56149101001     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31818b757d     Document Type: Article

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