TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 21. Surgery/Trauma A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. Y1 - 2012 N1 - T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments AB - According to RS Bransford, a Western surgeon working in an African hospital, "The OR [operating room] is only marginally clean. You can see through the cloth you put on your operating table. Most in the OR, including their doctors, are marginally safe with regard to sterile technique." (Personal communication, January 21, 2007.) SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57375231 ER -