Suppression of surgeons' bacterial hand flora during surgical procedures with a new antimicrobial surgical Glove

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-49

  Assadian, Ojan ^a   Kramer, Axel ^b   Ouriel, Kenneth ^c   Suchomel, Miranda ^d   McLaws, Mary Louise ^e   Rottman, Martin ^f   Leaper, David ^g   Assadian, Afshin ^h  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Syntactx   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^g ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; HAND SANITIZER;

ANTIMICROBIAL SURGICAL GLOVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BYPASS SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HAND BACTERIAL FLORA; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLORA; SURGEON; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HAND; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84893688238     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.230     Document Type: Article

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