Infection Control

Analyzing the Cleanliness of Surgical Gowns with Scanning Electron Microscopy

 How clean is clean? Catarina Alenius Jensen of Etteplan Techniqual Systems in Göteborg, Sweden, and Kristina Blom of Mölnlycke Health Care, put...

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Analyzing the Cleanliness of Surgical Gowns with Scanning Electron Microscopy

Driven by the Desire to Make a Difference

 Professor Nadey Hakim has the skills to change people’s lives. Exsero visited him at his London practice and met a busy doctor for whom...

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Driven by the Desire to Make a Difference

First rate hygiene is vital to prevent infections in hospital

 Health care associated infection (HAI) is the major concern reported by those about to use the National Health Service (NHS) in the United...

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First rate hygiene is vital to prevent infections in hospital

Are nail brushes and nail picks used during the surgical hand scrub effective?

 Nail brushes and nail picks are used extensively throughout the world as part of the surgical scrub, though there is no evidence to...

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Serious risk of perforations in gloves – occurs in one in three operations

 In one in three operations perforations appear in surgical gloves and the longer the operation, the greater the risk of a perforation(1)....

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Serious risk of perforations in gloves – occurs in one in three operations

Rising to the Challenge of Infection Control: Hong Kong Benchmarks Its Performance

 Every cloud has a silver lining, as the saying goes, and in Hong Kong this has been borne out by greatly improved infection control...

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Rising to the Challenge of Infection Control: Hong Kong Benchmarks Its Performance

Keeping Expectations for Infection Control in Perspective

 As the first decade of the new millennium draws to a tumultuous close, Dr Egil Lingaas, Head of the Department of Infection Prevention...

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