Chapter 18, Problem 1CR

What role might environment have played in causing Frederick Williams problems, especially at a time when nutrition varied greatly from town to town and from family to family?

As an illustration, a patient undergoing a laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) procedure under general anesthesia might be happier not to know the numbers of portals of entry for potential transmission of pathogenic microbes to which she will be subjected. The anesthesia provider would be accessing the patients airway and vascular system by an IV line. Which portals of entry will the surgeon be accessing?