ArticlePerioperative care and operating room management2020
Sample times for surveillance of
Article in Perioperative care and operating room management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Estimates and confidence intervals for mean postoperative health-care-associated infections per week among operating rooms and other anesthetizing locations.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Article
- Relationships in anesthesia work areas between contamination measured as colony-forming units,Anesthesiology and perioperative science · 2026Article
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- A threshold of 100 or more colony-forming units on the anesthesia machine predicts bacterial pathogen detection: a retrospective laboratory-based analysis.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- The efficacy of multifaceted versus single anesthesia work area infection control measures and the importance of surgical site infection follow-up duration.Journal of clinical anesthesia · 2023Observational
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- Quantifying and interpreting inequality of surgical site infections among operating rooms.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundReductions in perioperative surgical site infections are obtained by a multifaceted approach including patient decolonization, vascular care, hand hygiene, and environmental cleaning. Associated surveillance of
methodsOR PathTrac kits included 6 samples collected before the start of surgery and 7 after surgery. The time for consent also was recorded. We obtained 1677 measurements of time among 132 cases.
resultsSampling times were not significantly affected by technician's experience, type of anesthetic, or patient's American Society of Anesthesiologists' Physical Status. Sampling times before the start of surgery averaged less than 5 min (3.39 min [SE 0.23],
conclusionsFor routine use of monitoring
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