Current understanding of ozone use for disinfecting hemodialysis water treatment systems

Blood Purification

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-70

  Tarrass, Faissal ^a,c   Benjelloun, Meryem ^a   Benjelloun, Omar ^b  

^a Department of Dialysis   (Morocco)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Disinfection; Hemodialysis; Ozone; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; ENDOTOXIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HYPOCHLORITE; OZONE; PERACETIC ACID;

AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AMBIENT AIR; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISINFECTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER TREATMENT;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEMODIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; HUMANS; OZONE; RENAL DIALYSIS; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 77954531429     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317123     Document Type: Review

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