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  • Title: [Hygienic problems in intensive care units (author's transl)].
    Author: Rüden H, Fischer P, Thofern E.
    Journal: Prakt Anaesth; 1977 Dec; 12(6):478-92. PubMed ID: 594030.
    Abstract:
    Microbiological tests have established that intensive care units act as a reservoir from which hospital infections spread. The mode of their spread is reviewed. The increased incidence of nosocomial infections to intensive care wards is attributable partly to deficient antisepsis and asepsis and partly to inadequate planning of the building and organization of these wards. Plans for two intensive care wards are put forward which would reduce the risk of contact, smear and air-borne infections. In the planning of these units greater attention than has so far been the case should be paid to preventing the spread of pathogenic micro-organisms.
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