Alcohol preparation compared to traditional surgical hand antisepsis: acceptance by surgical team at a private hospital in Brazil
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Back to basics: hand hygiene and surgical hand antisepsis.
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant issue in the United States and throughout the world, but following proper hand hygiene practices is the most effective and least expensive way to prevent HAIs. Hand hygiene is inexpensive and protects patients and health care personnel alike. The four general types of hand hygiene that should be performed in the perioperative environmen...
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INTRODUCTION The surgeon uses different methods of surgical hand antisepsis with the aim of reducing surgical site infections. To date, there are no local studies comparing the efficacy of iodine hand scrub against newer alcohol-based hand rubs with active ingredients. Our pilot study compares a traditional aqueous hand scrub using 7.5% Povidone iodine (PVP-I) against a hand rub using Avagard: ...
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BACKGROUND Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical-site infection, optimization of preoperative skin antisepsis may decrease postoperative infections. We hypothesized that preoperative skin cleansing with chlorhexidine-alcohol is more protective against infection than is povidone-iodine. METHODS We randomly assigned adults undergoing clean-contaminated surg...
متن کاملEvaluation of two methods of determining the efficacies of two alcohol-based hand rubs for surgical hand antisepsis.
The antimicrobial efficacies of preparations for surgical hand antisepsis can be determined according to a European standard (prEN 12791 [EN]) and a U.S. standard (tentative final monograph for health care antiseptic drug products [TFM]). The U.S. method differs in the product application mode (hands and lower forearms, versus hands only in EN), the number of applications (11 over 5 days, versu...
متن کاملDesign of automated training and monitoring system for alcohol-based hand rub surgical hand preparation
Results The cameras were positioned above the users with a clear view of their hands. For the single camera system background modelling and skin detection were combined to find the hands and arms. The solution was effective but was sensitive to the intensity and colour of light in the workspace. The stereo camera system measured the distances to objects in front of the camera and was combined w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2047-2994
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-4-s1-p163