Dirty rotten scoundrels!

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 485-487

  Hebl, James R ^a   Horlocker, Terese T ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEEDLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROILIAC JOINT; SURGICAL MASK; SYRINGE;

ANALGESIA; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PAIN CLINICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SACROILIAC JOINT; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149241340     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181fa69fd     Document Type: Editorial

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