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The Influence Of Traffic, Area Location, And Other Factors On Operating Room Microbial Load, Dotan I. Shvorin
The Influence Of Traffic, Area Location, And Other Factors On Operating Room Microbial Load, Dotan I. Shvorin
Dr. Dotan Shvorin
Objective. This research seeks to understand how the movement of patients, equipment, materials, staff, and door openings within the operating room (OR) affect microbial loads at various locations within the OR.
Design. Observation and Sampling.
Setting. Academic health center – public hospital.
Methods. We first analyzed 27 videotaped procedures to determine the areas in the OR with high and low numbers of people in transit. We then placed air samplers and settle plates in representative locations during 21 procedures in four different ORs, during two different seasons of the year, to measure microbial load, in colony …