Automatic MDCT injectors: Hygiene and efficiency of disposable, prefilled, and multidosing roller pump systems in clinical routine

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Buerke, Boris ^a   Puesken, Michael ^a   Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Schuelke, Christoph ^a   Knauer, Anna ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Wessling, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic injector; Contrast agent; CT; Hygiene; Roller pump; Syringe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTISEPSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INJECTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN FLORA; SYRINGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYRINGES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960738327     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5924     Document Type: Article

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