Vibration-reducing (VR) gloves are commonly used as a means to help control exposures to hand-transmitted vibrations generated by powered hand tools. The objective of this study was to characterise the vibration transmissibility spectra and frequency-weighted vibration transmissibility of VR gloves at the palm of the hand in three orthogonal directions. Seven adult males participated in the eva...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Dental practitioners are prone to occupational risk of infection. This can be prevented in part by wearing gloves. However, for this to be effective, gloves should be intact during the entire course of dental procedure. Leaky surgical latex gloves have been seen in 0.9% of cases before use. As much as 1.9% of latex gloves have been reported to be damaged during dental proced...

BACKGROUND Contact allergy to plastic gloves is rare. Benzisothiazolinone is a biocide that is mainly used in industrial settings. We first suspected delayed-type contact allergy to benzisothiazolinone from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gloves in 2004. We looked through our medical records from 1991 to 2005 to find similar cases. OBSERVATIONS We found a total of 8 patients who are allergic to benz...

BACKGROUND Arthritis gloves are regularly provided as part of the management of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and undifferentiated (early) inflammatory arthritis (IA). Usually made of nylon and elastane (i.e. Lycra®), these arthritis gloves apply pressure with the aims of relieving hand pain, stiffness and improving hand function. However, a systematic review identified little evidence ...

introduction: gloves protect the dental healthcare worker from direct contact with microorganisms in the patient's mouth and on dental setting surfaces; they also protect the patient from potential pathogens on the hands of the clinicians. this study was performed to evaluate the permeability of three types of examination latex gloves after treatment of patients in pediatric department of mashh...

In this note we describe the standard technical maneuver used in our department to protect the skin during thyroidectomy in order to get the best aesthetic result. We use surgical gloves to protect the skin during these operations to reduce the negative impact of thermal trauma and mechanical retractors and energy delivery devices at the edges of the skin incised. This practice is effective, in...

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...

BACKGROUND The use of sterile gloves is part of general aseptic procedure, which aims to prevent surgical team members from transmitting infectious agents to patients during procedures performed in an operating room. In addition, surgical gloves also protect team members against patient-transmitted infectious agents. Adequate protection, however, requires that the glove material remain intact. ...

The cleaning, washing, drying, and powdering of surgical rubber gloves is a disagreeable task requiring a good deal of manipulation, and consequently a relatively large expenditure of man hours. It is necessary, too, when gloves are used in laboratories working with pathogens that a preliminary decontamination be given to prevent the gloves from becoming a source of infection. Graham (1957) des...