Protective effect of HEPA-filtered operating room air ventilation with or without laminar airflow on surgical site infections

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 659-660

  Assadian, Ojan ^a   Kuelpmann, Ruediger ^b   Zhumadilova, Anara ^c   Kobayashi, Hiroyoshi ^d   Heidecke, Claus Dieter ^e   Kramer, Axel ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c ASTANA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^d TOKYO HEALTHCARE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; LETTER; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

ABDOMEN; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENTILATION;

EID: 70349656521     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b9850b     Document Type: Letter

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