1 Department of Surgery, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran 2 Cellular and Molecular Research Centre, Department of Pharmacology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran 3 Department of Pathology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran 4 Department of Biostatistics, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IR Iran 5 Shefa Neuroscience Res...

AIM While the requirements for single-use gloves for staff protection are clearly defined, the conventional medical differentiation between "sterile surgical gloves" used during surgical procedures and "single-use medical gloves" used in non-sterile medical areas does not adequately define the different requirements in these two areas of use. Sterilization of single-use medical gloves is not pe...

BACKGROUND An increased frequency of occupational contact hand dermatitis among surgical operating theatre personnel has been noticed. OBJECTIVES To evaluate patients with occupational contact dermatitis caused by their rubber gloves, and to describe a method for analysing the content of the allergens in the gloves. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patch tests were performed with the baseline series, ...

background and objectives: hand hygiene is a crucial measure for preventing healthcare-related infections. surgical scrub is an important factor in the safety and success of a surgical operation. the aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate effectiveness of some conventional surgical antiseptic solutions, and to identify the most effective one. methods: effectiveness of alcohol-based sol...

Background and Objectives: Hand hygiene is a crucial measure for preventing healthcare-related infections. Surgical scrub is an important factor in the safety and success of a surgical operation. The aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate effectiveness of some conventional surgical antiseptic solutions, and to identify the most effective one. Methods: Effectiveness of alcohol-based s...

Single-incision laparoscopic surgery has gained increasing attention due to its potential to improve the benefits of laparoscopic surgery. However, inconvenience remains for inexperienced surgeons during surgery when instruments conflict with each other, and a glove port is used hesitantly for such diagnosis related groups (DRG) because of its high cost. Authors made a new glove port by an odd ...

We assessed the frequency of glove perforation during major and minor orthopaedic surgeries, in order to determine the efficacy of double gloving. A total number of 1528 gloves (622 inner and 906 outer) used in 200 procedures (100 major-100 minor), and 100 pairs of unused gloves were examined. Glove perforation rate, incidence among surgical team, location of perforation and duration of surgery...

The spread of viral diseases such as HIV has highlighted the importance of protecting medical personnel against contamination from blood. We have assessed the frequency of the perforation of surgical gloves during orthopaedic and trauma surgery and compared the efficiency of single and double gloving. We examined all the gloves used by surgeons for a period of two months. There were 1769 gloves...