But he says published data in the August 1998 journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses on a sanitizer with the same active ingredient shows sustained activity.

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Data gathered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) suggests as many as one in five patients on intravenous (IV) fluids have complications or die because of inappropriate administration.

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As reported here previously, Poldermans was fired for scientific misconduct by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he had been a professor of medicine and the head of perioperative cardiac care.

FORBES: Embers Of Poldermans Case Still Smoldering

He was widely published and active in the field, serving as a member of the European Society of Cardiology committee for practice guidelines and as the chairperson of the ESC guidelines on pre-operative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery.

FORBES: Embers Of Poldermans Case Still Smoldering