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Infection Control in Operating Rooms: Sterilization and Disinfection Practices

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Operating rooms are critical patient-care areas where absolute care must be taken to prevent transmission of infections. Most cases of surgical site infections are due to peri-operative exposure to pathogens. Since skin integrity is breached due to surgeries, it is imperative that the air, surfaces, and devices are pathogen-free. It is also crucial to main best practices in ORs so as to minimize the pathogen load in the air circulating in the air. This chapter describes the procedures for cleaning and decontamination in the ORs. The chapter also details the processes of sterilization for devices and instruments to be used in ORs.

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  1. JPNA Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Purva Mathur

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  1. Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Hemanshu Prabhakar

  2. Division of Neuroanesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Zulfiqar Ali

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Mathur, P. (2019). Infection Control in Operating Rooms: Sterilization and Disinfection Practices. In: Prabhakar, H., Ali, Z. (eds) Textbook of Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3387-3_24

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