The Bair Hugger patient warming system in prolonged vascular surgery: an infection risk?

INTRODUCTION: Use of the Bair Hugger forced-air patient warming system during prolonged abdominal vascular surgery may lead to increased bacterial contamination of the surgical field by mobilization of the patient's skin flora. METHODS: This possibility was studied by analyzing bacterial conten...

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Autores principales: Huang, Joseph KC, Shah, Elizabeth F, Vinodkumar, Narayanan, Hegarty, MA, Greatorex, Robert A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC270670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12793885

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC270670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12793885

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