Contamination of Anesthesia Circuits by Pathogens
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Arai, Luiza Alves de Castro; Azevedo, Ricardo Bentes
- Source
- Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology; January-February 2011, Vol. 61 Issue: 1 p50-59, 10p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 00347094
Evaluation of contamination of anesthesia circuits by collecting 56 culture samples from the circular system; previously reprocessed tracheas by disinfection with 1% hypochlorite or 2% glutaraldehyde after being washed in non-sterile water and soap and dried by using compressed air and stored in surgical grade paper; and from other places of the non-reprocessed respiratory circuit, before anesthetic procedures.