Does wearing two pairs of gloves protect operating theatre staff from skin contamination?
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Conventional loose-weave cotton operating garments were compared with clothing of a non-woven fabric to test their efficacy in reducing the dispersal of skin bacteria into theatre air. When men wore operating suits made of the non-woven fabric dispersal of skin bacteria was reduced by 72%. When all the operating-theatre staff wore suits and dresses of this fabric air bacterial counts during ope...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 297 6648 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1988