3. Protective barriers Appropriate gloves for the task should be utilised to provide an effective barrier against infectious materials (blood, body fluids) and chemicals. Health care workers must also wear masks, protective eye wear, face shields and/or fluid resistant attire when appropriate. 4. Double glove Health care practitioners should use two pairs of gloves during invasive procedures. A...

Strongly held beliefs about the need for contact isolation to prevent the spread of infections in the hospital have contributed to increased costs and decreased flexibility and, more recently, have driven aggressive diagnostic testing for colonization in asymptomatic patients. Examination of the evidence cited in support of the benefits of isolation and growing evidence of its unintended harms ...

A formulation of regenerated silk fibroin solution that can be easily functionalized and inkjet printed on numerous surfaces is developed. As an example, the inks can be printed on laboratory gloves that change color when exposed to bacteria.

The need for a functional and cosmetically-acceptable hand for juvenile amputees has existed for many years, In 1958 the Army Prosthetics Research Laboratory attempted to fill the void by developing a child's voluntaryopening hand, denoted as size No. 1. The Sierra Engineering Company con­ tracted to manufacture this hand, and two other companies (Kingsley M a n u ­ facturing Company and Prosth...

Human hands are an important source of microbial contamination of foods. However, published data on the effectiveness of handwashing and glove use in a foodservice setting are limited. Bacterial transfer through foodservice quality gloves was quantified using nalidixic acid-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes (a nonpathogenic surrogate with attachment characteristics similar to Salmonella). Five t...

To address the problem, a great deal of research has been carried out in Malaysia and other manufacturing countries, as well as in consumer countries in the West. Whilst studies in Europe and USA have been largely concerned with the development of suitable diagnostic tests, much efforts have been made in Malaysia to further improve quality of the products. Intensive R&D by the Rubber Research I...

BACKGROUND Protein contact dermatitis has frequently been reported in case studies (usually in cases involving contact with seafood products), but there are very few descriptive series. The objectives of this present study were firstly to determine the incidence of protein contact dermatitis among fishermen in France and compare it with data from onshore work involving seafood exposure. Second,...

In Brief Hydration, the absorption of uid into the interstitial areas of a glove once it is wetted, adversely aaects the clinical performance of natural rubber latex gloves. These eeects potentially include increased conductivity, c hanges in tensile and tactile properties, and increased chemical and viral permeability. All of our data indicate that signiicant h ydration is an undesirable prope...

Methods We developed a questionnaire based on the WHO glove use pyramid. The pyramid was used as campaign material for the most recent national hand hygiene campaign (end of campaign May, 2009). The final questionnaire contained 36 glove use indications with four response alternatives: “no gloves indicated”, “non-sterile gloves indicated”, “sterile gloves indicated” and “I do not know”. Demogr...