The Dynamics and Implications of Bacterial Transmission Events Arising from the Anesthesia Work Area

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 853-860

  Loftus, Randy W ^a   Koff, Matthew D ^a   Birnbach, David J ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA GAS MACHINE; ANESTHESIA WORK AREA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LARYNGOSCOPE; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYRINGE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HAND WASHING; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930888347     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000505     Document Type: Review

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