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BACTERIAL SPREAD IN POLYETHYLENE TUBING A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF SURGICAL WOUND CONTAMINATION
Author(s) -
Casey B. H.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb92504.x
Subject(s) - contamination , suction , tube (container) , surgery , medicine , polyethylene , drainage , materials science , biology , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology
Study of rates of organism spread In static columns of serum contained in standard suction drainage tubing indicates that wound contamination by retrograde spread up the tube is a possibility within 24 hours of the lower end of the tube becoming contaminated. Stasis of fluid within the tube appears to be a prerequisite for this effect.