BACKGROUND This systematic review updates a previous review published in 2001. Cleansing is a vital component of wound management; however; little attention has been give to the solutions and techniques used for cleansing purposes. The objective of this review was to assess the effectiveness of different solutions, pressures and techniques used for wound cleansing to prevent infection and promo...

Oral Cleansing, Spiders, Gnathocoxal Gland, Histochemistry, Micromorphological Investigations Histochemical and micromorphological investigations of the gnathocoxal gland in spiders brought out its uniquely adaptive cleansing function. The prey particulates, caught in the oral mi­ crostructures, are bound with mucopolysaccharides or glyco-muco-proteins from the glandular se­ cretions in Araneus...

Background and Aim: There is lack of information regarding the effect of different denture cleansing solutions on the retention of attachments. This study aimed to as-sess the effect of denture cleansing solutions on the retention of Dalbo-Plus and Loca-tor attachment systems. Materials and Methods: This study evaluated 160 attachments including 80 Locator and 80 Dalbo-Plus attachment systems....

This study determined the effect of cleansing solutions on microtensile bond strengths of self-etch adhesives to saliva-contaminated dentin. Seventy five human molars were ground flat to expose mid-depth dentin, and randomly assigned to 5 groups (n=15): no contamination, saliva contamination without cleansing, saliva and cleansing with water, saliva and cleansing with 2% chlorhexidine, and sali...

Maintaining the quality of detailed product data, ranging from data about required raw materials to detailed specifications of tools and spare parts, is of vital importance in many industries. Ordering or using wrong spare parts (based on wrong or incomplete information) may result in significant production loss or even impact health and safety. The web provides a wealth of information on produ...

The recent article by Blum et al. on ethnic cleansing and genocide is based in part on data that published studies have shown to be inaccurate, and contains at least one misleading statement. When these problems are corrected, their argument fails. The inaccurate data are that 200 000 were killed in the 1992–1995 Bosnian war (Abstract, p. 2, p. 3, fig. 1, fig. 2). The source for this number (pe...

BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is generally considered to be the most important measure that can be applied to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Continuous emphasis on this intervention has lead to the widespread opinion that HAI rates can be greatly reduced by increased hand hygiene compliance alone. However, this assumes that the effectiveness of hand hygiene is not constr...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) in the United States is the most common bacterial infection, and urine cultures often make up the largest portion of workload for a hospital-based microbiology laboratory. Appropriately managing the factors affecting the preanalytic phase of urine culture contributes significantly to the generation of meaningful culture results that ultimately affect pat...

Thin layers of tissue and residue are easily misclassified by current electronic cleansing methods for CT colonography. Thereby holes are introduced in the colon wall that hamper visualization and automated polyp detection. We present a thin layer model to detect and characterize such layers to support electronic cleansing. It is shown that the model sustains robust estimation of the location a...