Occult Glove Perforation During Adult Elective Orthopaedic Surgery
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Results: The overall perforation rate was found to be 15% with 11.6% blood contamination in our study. Surgeons had higher perforation rate (11.1%) compared to other operating team members.The index finger and thumb of the nondominant hand had more perforations then the dominant hand. More perforations were observed in bony operations compared to other surgeries.Perforation rate was more in operations lasting for more than 90 min. The perforation rate of unused gloves was 1%.
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