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11703239

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-12
pubmed:abstractText
Twenty previously used and supposedly clean, sterilised laryngeal mask airways, five bougies and five Magill forceps from the operating theatre, and 61 laryngoscope blades from different sites within a single hospital were randomly collected and stained with erythrosin B dye, which stains proteins if present on surfaces. All 20 laryngeal mask airways had been used before and were stained: four (20%) showed heavy staining, five (25%) moderate staining and 11 (55%) mild staining. Two unused laryngeal mask airways used as controls were without staining. Thirty-four of 44 (77%) laryngoscope blades taken from the operating theatres, six of seven (86%) from the overnight intensive recovery room and all 10 (100%) from the wards were stained. None of the other items was totally clean. These findings suggest that current cleaning methods do not remove all proteinaceous material.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0003-2409
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1069-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Presence of protein deposits on 'cleaned' re-usable anaesthetic equipment.
pubmed:affiliation
Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals' Medical and Dental School, London, UK. donald.miller@kcl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article