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Hand disinfection in the combat against COVID-19. [PDF]
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over a new coronavirus. The new corona virus (SARS‐CoV‐2) has raised global attention with raising concerns of rapid spread from human‐to‐human. Like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)‐nCoV, 2019‐nCoV can be passed directly from person to person by respiratory droplets ...
Goldust M, Abdelmaksoud A, Navarini AA.
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Efficacy of ethanol against viruses in hand disinfection. [PDF]
J Hosp Infect, 2018 Ethanol is used worldwide in healthcare facilities for hand rubbing. It has been reported to have a stronger and broader virucidal activity compared with propanols. The aim of this review was to describe the spectrum of virucidal activity of ethanol in solution or as commercially available products. A systematic search was conducted.
Kampf G.
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Disinfection of the hands [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, 1902 n ...
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Disinfection of the Hands with Alcohol [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1899 n ...
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Disinfection of the Hands of Surgeons and Nurses [PDF]
BMJ, 1960 The hands of the nurse and the surgeon are undoubtedly two of the chief vectors of hospital infection. They often carry pathogenic organisms, in particular Staphylococcus aurelus, which may be present in large numbers. Price (1938) has shown that scrubbing with soap and water for six minutes will reduce the numbers Df bacteria on the hands by only ...
H. A. Lilly, E. J. L. Lowbury
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A test for 'hygienic' hand disinfection. [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1978 A standardised test procedure is described in which finger-tips are inoculated with broth cultures of organisms (Staphylococcus aureus, Staphyloccocus saprophyticus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa): counts are made from washings of hands after disinfection with various antiseptic-detergents, alcoholic solutions, or unmedicated soap.
A. H. Quoraishi +2 more
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The Practical Disinfection of the Hands [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1895 n ...
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Methods for Disinfection of Hands and Operation Sites [PDF]
BMJ, 1964 In previous studies we compared the relative value of alternative methods for disinfecting the hands of nurses and surgeons and the skin of operation sites, but a number of relevant questions were not considered. For disinfection of the operation site alcoholic solutions of chlorhexidine (0.5%) and iodine (1%) were found to be equally effective and ...
H. A. Lilly, J.P. Bull, E.J.L. Lowbury
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Disinfection of gloved hands during routine care
New Microbes and New Infections, 2021 Healthcare-associated infections are a major issue in public health. After several decades of hand hygiene programmes, it is time to admit that we have failed to achieve our goal. One of the reasons is the overuse of gloves, which is in part justified by the nature of the nursing care.
Vogel, A., Brouqui, P., Boudjema, S.
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Hand disinfection in hospitals – benefits and risks [PDF]
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, 2010 SummaryThe WHO regards hand hygiene as an essential tool for the prevention of noso‐comial infections. The hygienic hand disinfection has a superior antimicrobial efficacy compared to hand washing and should be performed as the treatment of choice before and after a variety of activities at the point of patient care.
Harald Löffler, Günter Kampf
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