The importance of protecting surgical instrument tables from intraoperative contamination in clean surgeries Importancia de la protección de la mesa de instrumentos quirúrgicos en la contaminación intraoperatoria de cirugías limpias Importância da proteção da mesa de instrumentais cirúrgicos na contaminação intraoperatória de cirurgias limpas

• Main Authors: Aline Mesquita Amaral (Author), Augusto Diogo Filho (Author), Mileide Maria de Assunção Sousa (Author), Patrícia Araújo Barbosa (Author), Paulo Pinto Gontijo Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: to compare the degree of bacterial contamination of surgical instrument tables used in clean surgical procedures, either protected with plastic fields, sterilized with ethylene oxide, or disinfected with 70% alcohol and 1% iodine solutions. This is a randomized clinical trial in which sam...