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Healthcare-associated infection is a global concern and imposes a huge economic burden on the health industry. Anaesthesiologists must be aware of their role in mitigating infection at the work place. This chapter looks at the potential sources and causes of infection and how an anaesthetic event may result in cross-infection. Good practices including hand-washing, decontamination of equipment and maintenance of work surfaces and anaesthetic machines between cases are described. Terminologies such as single use, single patient use, reusable equipment, decontamination and sterilisation are defined. Management of reusable components of video and direct laryngoscopes and the use, maintenance and transport of flexible optical bronchoscopes are discussed. We hope this chapter would be of use to the career anaesthesiologists and also to trainees preparing for their certificate exams.

This article argues that πυγμῇ in Mark 7.3 is not as mysterious as much of the history of scholarship has suggested. It seems clear that πυγμῇ reflects a known purity practice in early Jewish law concerned with using the minimal amount of water required for hand-washing. The hand would be sufficiently relaxed in order that an economic use of water poured on it could seep through the fingers to cover enough of the hand required for proper purification. The literal translation ‘fist’, at least with the sense ‘in the form of a fist’, is the most obvious translation of πυγμῇ when placed in the context of hand-washing law.

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Chapter 37 - Decontamination of Airway Equipment

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Halakah and Mark 7.3: ‘with the hand in the shape of a fist’*

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Chapter 37 - Decontamination of Airway Equipment

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Halakah and Mark 7.3: ‘with the hand in the shape of a fist’*