Factors contributing to airborne particle dispersal in the operating room

BMC Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Noguchi, Chieko ^a   Koseki, Hironobu ^b   Horiuchi, Hidehiko ^a   Yonekura, Akihiko ^a   Tomita, Masato ^a   Higuchi, Takashi ^b   Sunagawa, Shinya ^b   Osaki, Makoto ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne particle; Intraoperative action; Surgery; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 85022039525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12893-017-0275-1     Document Type: Article

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