Accepted 20 November 1996 Abstract Objectives-To determine the prevalence of latex sensitisation among a large group of healthcare workers, study the occupational and non-occupational factors associated with latex allergy, and characterise latex exposure in air and by gloves. Methods-All 2062 employees of a general hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who regularly used latex gloves were invit...

I greatly enjoyed Tom Lissauer's annotation on the impact of AIDS (does he mean HIV infection?) on neonatal care. ' I beg to differ, however, on his conclusion that we should avoid the 'two tier' system of neonatal care. At delivery, where there is much blood and liquor and the potential for staff to become infected (although none have yet been shown to have been infected at delivery), the Roya...

The human hands form very unique and versatile parts of the body. They explore the environment via tactile and haptic feedback, they manipulate the environment and they communicate with interlocutors. The movements of the hands thus provide the receptive observer with information about the current sensory information state, the current actions or the communicative intent of a subject. Scientifi...

An intact barrier between the hands of the surgeon and the patient remains the single most important factor in protection against infection for both. Increasing the awareness of possible glove perforation without skin penetration will decrease the risk of contamination. We performed a prospective, randomised trial comparing the incidence of glove perforation using a new type of glove (Regent Bi...

Keyboards have been used on typewriters and as input devices to computers and many keyboards have been proposed in order to improve their performance. Some glove-based input devices to computers have been also proposed for compactness and flexibility. In this paper, an input device to computers consisting of a pair of gloves is proposed. The keys of the proposed gloves are mounted on the finger...

In the task-saturated environment of extravehicular activity (EVA), an astronaut’s ability to leverage suit-integrated information systems is limited by a lack of options for data entry. In particular, bulky gloves inhibit the ability to interact with standard computing interfaces such as a mouse or keyboard. This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation into a system that perm...

This article presents a study on the effect of different protective gloves (which are commercially available and commonly used in the cold) on manual dexterity in cold environments. The experiments compared statistically four different types of gloves and two different types of gloving (outer or double) at +19 °C and -10 °C. Performance was determined both objectively and subjectively using two...

Accurate and real-time machine translation of sign language has the potential to significantly improve communication between hearing impaired people and those who do not understand sign language. Previous research studies on computer recognition of sign language have taken input from technology including motion-capturing gloves and computer vision combined with colored gloves. These projects co...

Papular-purpuric "gloves and socks" syndrome (PPGSS) is a novel, rare, self-limiting dermatosis caused by human parvovirus B19. It consists of pruritic edema and erythema of the hands and feet in a gloves-and-socks distribution, and it is associated with oral lesions and fever. We present a case of PPGSS in a 22-year-old Brazilian woman. Clinical and laboratory evaluation, including serological...