Is alcohol-based hand disinfection equivalent to surgical scrub before placing a central venous catheter?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 622-625

  Burch, Thomas Michael ^a   Stanger, Brett ^a   Mizuguchi, K Annette ^b   Zurakowski, David ^c,d   Reid, Sean D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MALE; SOAPS;

EID: 84857659586     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31824083b8     Document Type: Article

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