Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles

Point-of-care ultrasound is widely used in hospitalized patients. Hospital-acquired infections attributed to contaminated multiuse ultrasound gel bottles have been increasingly reported, including Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, and Acinetobacter species. Surgilube’s chemical properties and sterile singl...

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Autores principales: Davidson, Joshua, Bhatt, Tanushree, Ponnachan, Deny, El Falah, Hamza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10307929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398720
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39666
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description Point-of-care ultrasound is widely used in hospitalized patients. Hospital-acquired infections attributed to contaminated multiuse ultrasound gel bottles have been increasingly reported, including Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, and Acinetobacter species. Surgilube’s chemical properties and sterile single-use packaging make it an appealing alternative to multi-use ultrasound gel bottles.
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spelling pubmed-103079292023-06-30 Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles Davidson, Joshua Bhatt, Tanushree Ponnachan, Deny El Falah, Hamza Cureus Internal Medicine Point-of-care ultrasound is widely used in hospitalized patients. Hospital-acquired infections attributed to contaminated multiuse ultrasound gel bottles have been increasingly reported, including Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, and Acinetobacter species. Surgilube’s chemical properties and sterile single-use packaging make it an appealing alternative to multi-use ultrasound gel bottles. Cureus 2023-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10307929/ /pubmed/37398720 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39666 Text en Copyright © 2023, Davidson et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title_full Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title_fullStr Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title_full_unstemmed Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title_short Single-Use Surgilube® Packets as an Alternative to Ultrasound Gel Bottles
title_sort single-use surgilube® packets as an alternative to ultrasound gel bottles
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10307929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398720
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39666
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