PREVENTION OF AIRBORNE INFECTION DURING SURGERY

Effect of ultraclean air in operating rooms on deep sepsis in the joint after total hip or knee replacement: a randomised study.

O. M. Lidwell, E. J. L. Lowbury, W. Whyte et al. · BMJ · 1982 · 697 citations · Full text

Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Surgery +10

Infection rates after 3175 total hip and total knee replacements performed with and without a horizontal unidirectional filtered air-flow system.

Eduardo A. Salvati, Raymond P. Robinson, Susan Marie Zeno et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery · 1982 · 295 citations

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgery +17

Low friction arthroplasty of the hip

Journal of Biomedical Engineering · 1980 · 214 citations

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery +12

The size distribution of airborne particles carrying micro-organisms

W. C. Noble, O. M. Lidwell, David G. I. Kingston · Epidemiology and Infection · 1963 · 179 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +17

Suggested bacteriological standards for air in ultraclean operating rooms

W. Whyte, O. M. Lidwell, E. J. L. Lowbury et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 1983 · 125 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Bacteriology +13