BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Wearing of gloves reduces transmission of organisms by healthcare workers' hands but is not a substitute for hand hygiene. Results of previous studies have varied as to whether hand hygiene is worse when gloves are worn. Most studies have been small and used nonstandardized assessments of glove use and hand hygiene. We sought to observe whether gloves were worn when app...

BACKGROUND Surgical gloves provide a protective barrier for patients and members of the surgical team. Although glove integrity is important in an era of blood-borne pathogens, little data exist on bacterial passage after glove perforation. This study evaluated the impact of antimicrobial surgical gloves in reducing microbial passage after glove puncture in a model of wound contamination. MET...

Non-sterile gloves are just as effective as sterile gloves in preventing surgical site infection after minor skin surgeries.

The opportunistic Propionibacterium acnes recovered frequently from failed endodontic treatments might be the result of nosocomial endodontic infections. The study was aimed to determine if gloves worn by dentists could be 1 of the sources of these nosocomial infections and to investigate the P. acnes phylotypes involved.(...) Contamination of the gloves was detected at the final stages of the ...

A 68-year-old non-atopic woman was referred with recurrent perioral and lip dermatitis and oedema of the oral mucosa following dental treatments. Prior to retirement, she had been working as an auxiliary nurse for 31 years. Throughout a normal workday, she had been using protective rubber gloves for more than 2h in total, and >20 pairs of protective gloves. At the time, she experienced fluctuat...

This paper explores the dual meaning of counterfactual conditionals, such as ‘if there had been gloves, then there would have been scarves’, by tracking the temporal course to envisage the possibility corresponding to the conjecture ‘there were gloves and there were scarves’ and the presupposed facts, ‘there were no gloves and there were no scarves’. To test this, we used the visual world parad...

The handling of vinyl polysiloxane (addition silicone) impression putties with latex gloves is said to interfere with the setting of these impression materials. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of handling techniques on the setting of vinyl polysiloxane impression putties using several types of gloves. The setting of these materials was evaluated by means of an elasticimeter. Fou...