Infectious complications of regional anesthesia

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 573-580

  Hebl, James R ^a   Niesen, Adam D ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

aseptic technique; infectious complications; regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL PLUS CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HEXACHLOROPHENE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL ERROR; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAXIAL BLOCK; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN FLORA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINE DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; SURGICAL MASK;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MASKS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 80052680826     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834a9252     Document Type: Article

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