The number of total hip arthroplasties is ever increasing. Literature about glove perforation rates in arthroplasties in India is very scarce. The purpose of our study was to determine the incidence of glove perforation and increasing the awareness of possible glove perforations to decrease the risk of infection. We performed a prospective study in which we tested gloves worn by all scrubbed pe...

We performed a prospective, randomised study comparing the rates of glove perforation using double latex gloving with or without a disposable protective glove liner (Paraderm) on 118 patients undergoing primary or revision arthroplasty of the hip or knee by one surgeon (FRH). The patients were randomly allocated into two groups: in group 1 an inner and outer pair of latex gloves were worn as do...

We describe a new method for data glove calibration that uses computer vision techniques to create a filter for individual customization of input obtained from the glove. Our major observation is that it is possible to create a linear correlation between the hand posture reported by the data glove and the observed posture of the hand itself. We use a feature-based computer vision system indepen...

Literature in regard to glove perforation rates in revision total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is scarce. Our purpose was to determine the incidence of perforation in revision TJA. Gloves from all scrubbed personnel were tested based on the American Society for Testing and Materials. A total of 3863 gloves were collected from 58 primary and 36 revision arthroplasty cases. Surgeons had a 3.7% outer-...

BACKGROUND A surgical glove will protect surgeons and patients only if the glove's integrity remains intact. However, several studies have demonstrated that undetected micro-perforations of surgical gloves are common. Because of the possibility of surgical glove puncture, an antimicrobial surgical glove was developed. The aim of this laboratory based experimental study was to assess the antibac...

In this paper, a visual glove based on Conformal Geometric Algebra is proposed. To estimate the motion of hand in an intuitive way, Conformal Geometric Algebra is introduced in that it can describe relationship of objects in 3D Euclidean space geometrically. For measuring human hand joints angles with glove like device, the physiological structure of human hand is analyzed and an inverse kinema...

BACKGROUND One area of space suits that is ripe for innovation is the glove. Existing models allow for some fine motor control, but the power grip--the act of grasping a bar--is cumbersome due to high torque requirements at the knuckle or metacarpal phalangeal joint (MCP). This area in particular is also a major source of complaints of pain and injury as reported by astronauts. METHOD This pa...

Figure 2 Glove stretched over the retractor, providing a seal Figure 3 Glove port with camera inserted removal (Fig 1). This technique can also be used at a stoma site. Once the specimen is removed, stretch a sterile size 61⁄2 glove over the retractor and re-establish pneumoperitoneum. A perfect seal will be obtained (Fig 2). If the port is still required, cut the tip off any finger of the glov...