Timing of C-arm drape contamination

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-113

  Peters, Paul G ^a   Laughlin, Richard T ^a   Markert, Ronald J ^a   Nelles, David B ^a   Randall, Kyle L ^a   Prayson, Michael J ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; C ARM COVER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EQUIPMENT; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCOCCUS; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

COHORT STUDIES; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MICROCOCCUS; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859609858     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.054     Document Type: Article

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