Potential contamination at inhalation ports of air compressor-supplied ventilators

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• ² Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• ³ Hospital Infection Control Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• ⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Anesthesiology, Guilin Hospital of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Guilin, Guangxi, China.
• ⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Wenzhou People's Hospital, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁷ Department of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Chenzhou No. 1 People's Hospital, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
• ⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China. Electronic address: cuiyulong@csu.edu.cn.