Patient power – Kidd Gloves

Dr. H. B. Kidd

Time to take the gloves off: the use of radiation reduction gloves can greatly increase patient dose

Sterile radiation reduction gloves have been widely used over the past several decades in an effort to reduce hand doses during fluoroscopically guided proce- dures. While multiple studies have quantified the potential dose reduction to the fluoroscope operator from the use of such gloves, possible effects on the patient have not yet been quantified. The aim of this study was to examine the imp...

Gloves, extra gloves or special types of gloves for preventing percutaneous exposure injuries in healthcare personnel.

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers are at risk of acquiring viral diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV through exposure to contaminated blood and body fluids at work. Most often infection occurs when a healthcare worker inadvertently punctures the skin of their hand with a sharp implement that has been used in the treatment of an infected patient, thus bringing the patient's blood into ...

Reply to Piantadosi and Kidd: Endogenous content.

Piantadosi and Kidd (1) raise three important issues concerning the mismatch between the grammars of children and their parents, and the role this mismatch plays in arguing for learner-internal factors shaping grammatical development. First, in other domains, a lack of correlation between children and adults would be taken as evidence for exogenous factors. So why should we conclude in this cas...

Kidd system antigens and kidney disease☆

The Kidd blood group system (ISBT009), identified in 1951, was the ninth blood group system and it is considered the ninth most clinically important. Antigens of the Kidd blood group system are expressed on type 3 glycoproteins, also known as the urea transporter B (UT-B). The JK protein is expressed on red blood cells (RBCs) and in the endothelium of the descending vasa recta and epithelial su...