Nothing to sneeze at! A study into intra-operative contamination

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 909-912

  Graham, David ^a   Parkinson, Benjamin ^a   Evans, Meghan ^a   Keijzers, Gerben ^b   Derrington, Petra ^a  

^a GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Mask; Sneeze; Theatre

Indexed keywords

AEROCOCCUS; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EIKENELLA; FACE MASK; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROCOCCUS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEPPER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNEEZING; SURGEON; SURGICAL MASK;

BACTERIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SNEEZING;

EID: 72349089709     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05131.x     Document Type: Article

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