Background The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at
the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated …

Purpose The potential for clinically significant microbial cross transmission in the
intraoperative environment poses a threat to patient safety. A growing body of literature has …

This chapter discusses contamination in the operating room environment. It is a common
misconception that the operating room, including the anesthesia work area, is entirely …

This chapter provides a focused review of healthcare-associated pathogens, their modes of
transmission, and their sources in the operating room which include patients, operating …

Der vorliegende Artikel soll klinisch tätigen AnästhesistInnen einen praxisorientierten
Überblick zu ausgewählten, wichtigen Empfehlungen der Hygiene im OP-Bereich vermitteln …

Purpose: This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to improve the knowledge base on
hand hygiene as it relates to the anesthesia profession and to improve the overall …

Problem: Anesthesia providers have poor hand hygiene compliance leading to microbial
contamination of the anesthesia workspaces in the operating rooms at a large academic …

This chapter describes the bacterial contamination of the anesthesia work area. Even
though transmission of pathogens from the inanimate environment to patient's body surfaces …

抄録 重症患者の術後集中治療は手術室から始まる. とりわけ, カテーテル類の留置は手術室で行
われ, そのまま集中治療室に持ち込まれる. 故に, その処置時の感染対策は術後の集中治療 …