The Effect That Time, Touch and Environment Have Upon Bacterial Contamination of Instruments During Surgery
Open Access
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Annals of Surgery
- Vol. 184 (5) , 642-644
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-197611000-00020
Abstract
Hemostats were evaluated for frequency of contamination and such contamination was correlated with increasing operating room exposure time. The studies were performed under surgical conditions in operating rooms with and without laminar air flow. The study was also designed to show whether contamination of hemostats were influenced by the scrub nurse's handling. Hemostats were more frequently contaminated in the conventional operating room without laminar air flow (PKeywords
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