Managing and preventing exposure events from inappropriately reprocessed endoscopes

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 657-660

  Weber, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CATHETER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CYSTOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMPLANT; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; LARYNGOSCOPE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84863189507     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666339     Document Type: Article

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