RT Book, Section A1 Iserson, Kenneth V. SR Print(0) ID 57375231 T1 Chapter 21. Surgery/Trauma T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-175497-2 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57375231 RD 2024/03/29 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.)