Epidemology of glove perforation in orthopaedic surgeries
Journal Title: IP International Journal of Orthopaedic Rheumatology - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction Surgical glove perforation is one of cause for percutaneous transfer of disease Among many HIV HBV HCV are deadliest diseases Among the other surgical specialities orthopaedics has the highest rate of glove perforation Hence this study was conducted to study the incidence of glove perforation their pattern in our instituteMaterials and Methods all the gloves 1444 collected from 286 operations which occurred during 3months period were tested out of which 172 were major procedures and 114 were minor procedures During the procedure if any perforation was detected to naked eye examination then they were labelled as perforated And rest the gloves were tested as per American society for testing and material standard ASTM d5151 06 guidelines for any perforations Results In our prospective study perforation occurred in 7426 surgeries Total of 17312 gloves were perforated 511783 from major 23804 from minor procedures the primary surgeon was most commonly involved 68 Only 53306 glove perforation was detected during the procedure Among the double glove users inner glove perforation was seen in only 5 of cases The most common fingers involved was left index 38 then right index finger 28 followed by left thumb 20 and right thumb was 14the primary surgeon was most commonly involved 68 The mean duration of the surgery in which perforation was noticed was 766minutesConclusion Double glove practice is better than the use of the single glove Gloves have to be changed regularly in prolonged procedures KeywordsGlove perforation Orthopaedic surgeries Double glove
Authors and Affiliations
Madhukar K. T. , Moinuddin Basha K. , Cheemala Vikram Reddy
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