Prevalence of bacterial burden on macroscopic contaminants of orthopaedic surgical instruments following sterilization

I J Wellington, T J Schneider,B C Hawthorne,M B McCarthy,J W Stelzer, J P Connors, C Dorsey, V Williams, A Lindsay,O Solovyova

Journal of Hospital Infection（2022）

Cited 0|Views9
No score
Abstract
This study found that 97% of macroscopic orthopaedic surgical instrument contaminants that underwent sterile processing did not possess a bacterial burden. Contaminants discovered during a procedure are likely to be sterile, and do not pose a substantially increased risk of infection to a patient.
More
Translated text
Key words
Orthopaedic,Contaminant,Bacteria,Sterility,Instruments,Tools
AI Read Science
Must-Reading Tree
Example
Generate MRT to find the research sequence of this paper
Chat Paper
Summary is being generated by the instructions you defined