Bacterial Contamination and Disinfection Status of Laryngoscopes Stored in Emergency Crash Carts

Bacterial Contamination and Disinfection Status of Laryngoscopes Stored in Emergency Crash Carts

Objectives To identify bacterial contamination rates of laryngoscope blades and handles stored in emergency crash carts by hospital and area according to the frequency of intubation attempts. Methods One hundred forty-eight handles and 71 blades deemed ready for patient use from two tertiary hospitals were sampled with sterile swabs using a standardized rolling technique. Samples were conside...

Field evaluation of emergency well disinfection for contamination events.

Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates stored at 20 ° C

In a series of important studies Murphy and his colleagues demonstrated that the preparation and storage of platelet-rich plasma and platelet concentrates at 22°C rather than 4°C improved their life span in vivo (Murphy and Gardner, 1969; Murphy, Sayar, and Gardner, 1970). The potential clinical relevance of this finding has been confirmed by Handin and Valeri (1971), and it is likely that this...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Contamination of Stored Pistachios to Aspergillus Section Flavi and Aflatoxins

Background: Contamination of stored pistachio nuts to Aspergillus section Flavi and aflatoxins (AFs) as well as effective parameters on fungal growth and AF production during storage was assayed. Methods: Twenty one pistachio nut samples were taken from some warehouse of Damghan county. Different parameters of storage, including temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation were recorded...