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...efficiency. The senior scrub nurse knew the senior surgeon's methods so well that he rarely had to ask for an instrument. A laconic New Englander, he uttered hardly a word. One thing that set this operation apart: in the theater, also sterile-garbed, was Microbiologist Ruth B. Kundsin, who took air samples every few minutes to test for harmful bacteria floating over the patient's widely opened abdomen. For more than an hour the bacteria count stayed reassuringly...
...senior surgeon removed a diseased ovary and appendix. Then he was called out of the theater and turned over the job of closing the wound to an assistant. This man was, as Dr. Kundsin told the American College of Surgeons last week, "a loquacious type." Though he wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains...
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