BACKGROUND Surgical site infection has been estimated to occur in about 15% of clean surgery and 30% of contaminated surgery cases. Using plastic adhesive drapes to protect the wound from organisms that may be present on the surrounding skin during surgery is one strategy used to prevent surgical site infection. Results from non-randomised studies have produced conflicting results about the eff...

INTRODUCTION Intravitreal injection of ranibizumab has become one of the most commonly performed ophthalmic procedures. It is timely to conduct an evaluation of the injection procedure from the patient's perspective so as to determine ways to improve patient experience. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively describe patients' experiences of the different stages of the intravitreal inj...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of a midface seal drape in eliminating fire risk oxygen concentrations from nasal cannulated oxygen delivery compared with a standard open oculofacial surgical field. METHODS Controlled experiment using the SimMan patient simulator and an oxygen detector. Oxygen concentrations were measured at 9 facial surgical locations with nasal cannula flow rates of 2, 4, ...

Fifteen volunteers lay supine for 3 hours in an empty operating theatre. Five rectangular areas were marked on the abdomen of each volunteer and a different antiseptic preparation was applied to four of the five areas. These were: 3 min painting with chlorhexidine in 70 per cent alcohol; 3 min painting with povidoneiodine in 70 percent alcohol; I min painting with 70 percent isopropyl alcohol a...