Surgical site infections and the anesthesia professionals' microbiome: We've all been slimed! Now what are we going to do about it?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-7

  Roy, Raymond C ^a   Brull, Sorin J ^b   Eichhorn, John H ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANESTHESIST; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOFILM; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COLON SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LAMINECTOMY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY CATHETER; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 78650935799     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fe4942     Document Type: Editorial

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