Forced-air warming: a source of airborne contamination in the operating room?
Forced-air-warming (FAW) is an effective and widely used means for maintaining surgical normothermia, but FAW also has the potential to generate and mobilize airborne contamination in the operating room. We measured the emission of viable and non-viable forms of airborne contamination from an arbitr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Medical Publishing
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Orthopedic Reviews |
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| Online Access: | http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/or/article/view/1295 |