Abstract
Health care-associated infections are a hospital-wide concern associated with a significant increase in patient morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Bacterial transmission in the anesthesia work area of the operating room environment is a root cause of 30-day postoperative infections affecting as many as 16% of patients undergoing surgery. A better understanding of anesthesia-related bacterial transmission dynamics may help to generate improvements in intraoperative infection control and improve patient safety.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 853-860 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Anesthesia and Analgesia |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)
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Loftus, R. W., Koff, M. D., & Birnbach, D. (2015). The dynamics and implications of bacterial transmission events arising from the anesthesia work area. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 120(4), 853-860. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000000505