id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-277818-8w15dz20 Jaichenco, Andre L. Infectious Disease Considerations for the Operating Room 2018-02-09 .txt text/plain 9728 528 39 Hand hygiene is a well-known and effective solution to the problem of bacterial transmission within and across patients and is considered the most important and cost-effective individual intervention in the prevention of health care–associated infections in children and health care providers Compliance with the current "5 moments" World Health Organization guidelines could make a major inroad into reducing provider hand and workspace contamination. These findings have clinical implications for the risk of colonization and subsequent HCIs-for example, SSIs. This calls attention to the need to develop and enforce strict hand hygiene guidelines for personnel who are providing anesthesia care, but more importantly the need to increase compliance with environmental disinfection of the OR (between cases and terminal cleaning), and to study further the directions of the spread of pathogens in the OR and anesthesia work areas. ./cache/cord-277818-8w15dz20.txt ./txt/cord-277818-8w15dz20.txt