Articles Tagged With: gloves
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A Simple Intervention to Reduce Surgical Site Infections?
This multicenter, cluster randomized trial in Benin, Ghana, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa evaluated the effect of changing sterile gloves and instruments at the time of abdominal wound closure on surgical site infection (SSI) rates among adults and children undergoing both elective and emergent surgery. The SSI rate in the intervention group among 5,789 patients was 16% compared to 18.9% in the control group of 6,768 patients (adjusted risk ratio, 0.87; 95% confidence interval, 0.79-0.95).
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Healthcare Personnel Use of PPE for COVID-19 Spurs Fungal Outbreak
Healthcare personnel’s (HCP) practice of wearing multiple layers of gowns and gloves to treat COVID-19 patients contributed to an outbreak of Candida auris bloodstream infections at a Florida hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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FDA moves to ban powdered gloves in healthcare
The Food and Drug Administration has announced a proposal to ban powdered gloves, and it cites the ongoing “dangerous” risk of allergic reactions to healthcare workers and patients.