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  • Title: [Laminar flow in the operating room (author's transl)].
    Author: Böhler J.
    Journal: Zentralbl Chir; 1982; 107(1):1-5. PubMed ID: 7072401.
    Abstract:
    After twenty years of clean-air operating rooms, no uniform opinion about the efficiency in preventing infections has been achieved. The reason is that with an infection rate around 1% only very large series of homologous material are statistically significant. Vertical flow is more efficient than horizontal flow. Clean-air technique is only one of the many facets of antisepsis and asepsis; it should be used especially in implantation and transplantation surgery in spite of the fact that its efficiency is not yet clearly proven.
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