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INTRODUCTION
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... Because of the potential significance of reduced operating room airborne bacterial content to reduced postoperative sepsis rates, the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development convened a multidisciplinary workshop to discuss this subject. In their planning sessions, the Steering Committee on the Control of Operating Room Airborne Bacteria discussed many subjects which might influence postoperative sepsis rates.
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... to list methods that can lower the contamination of the air; 4. to assess, on the basis of available data, the effectiveness of the techniques for controlling operating room airborne contamination and further investigate the adequacy of systems currently used to decontaminate operating room air; and 5.


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