Multiple reservoirs contribute to intraoperative bacterial transmission

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1236-1248

  Loftus, Randy W ^a   Brown, Jeremiah R ^b   Koff, Matthew D ^a   Reddy, Sundara ^c   Heard, Stephen O ^d   Patel, Hetal M ^a   Fernandez, Patrick G ^a   Beach, Michael L ^a   Corwin, Howard L ^a   Jensen, Jens T ^a   Kispert, David ^a   Huysman, Bridget ^a   Dodds, Thomas M ^a   Ruoff, Kathryn L ^a   Yeager, Mark P ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE STOPCOCK CONTAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT ENVIRONMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGY; AXILLA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; ODDS RATIO; OPERATING ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861532075     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31824970a2     Document Type: Article

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