Povidone-iodine before lidocaine gel anesthesia achieves surface antisepsis

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 346-349

  Doshi, Rishi R ^a   Leng, Theodore ^b   Fung, Anne E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANTISEPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTISEPSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GELS; LIDOCAINE; POVIDONE-IODINE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 80052880104     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20110210-02     Document Type: Article

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