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Infection Control, 1984
AbstractThe purpose of hygienic hand disinfection is to render hands safe after contact with pathogens. Comparing effects of disinfection procedures on infection ratios is too difficult for routine purposes but the degerming efficacy may be determined in laboratory tests with volunteers.
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AbstractThe purpose of hygienic hand disinfection is to render hands safe after contact with pathogens. Comparing effects of disinfection procedures on infection ratios is too difficult for routine purposes but the degerming efficacy may be determined in laboratory tests with volunteers.
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Stery-hand: A new device to support hand disinfection
2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2010Incomplete disinfection can cause serious complications in surgical care. The teaching of effective hand washing is crucial in modern medical training. To support the objective evaluation of hand disinfection, we developed a compact, mobile device, relying on digital imaging and image processing.
László Szilágyi +5 more
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Arguments for alcoholic hand disinfection
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2001The non-aqueous use of ethanol or propanols offers various advantages over washing hands with either unmedicated or medicated soap in both hygienic and surgical hand disinfection. Alcohols exert the strongest and fastest activity against a wide spectrum of bacteria and fungi (but not bacterial spores) as well as enveloped (but less so against non ...
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Hand disinfection: How irritant are alcohols?
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2008Irritant contact dermatitis is commonly found on hands of healthcare employees and is often explained by contact to water and detergents. Studies on the dermal tolerance clearly show that the degree of skin irritation is significantly lower after application of alcohol in comparison to detergents. It has also been shown in standardised wash tests using
Günter Kampf, Harald Löffler
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Application of the hygienic hand-disinfection test to the gloved hand
Journal of Hospital Infection, 1989The Austrian Standard Hygienic Hand-Disinfection Test was adapted for comparing the effect of washing artificially contaminated hands (using Escherichia coli) with contaminated gloved hands, using liquid soap and rinsing with water. Tests showed that a single soap wash completely removed all the bacteria from the glove, and was more than 1000 times ...
C. Rowland, S.W.B. Newsom
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Disinfection of hands and tubing of CAPD patients
Journal of Hospital Infection, 1984During a 3 month study the effectiveness of two methods of handwashing was assessed in a group of 31 patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. A defined, double rinse with alcohol, prior to bag exchange, was found to be more convenient and significantly more effective than povidone-iodine alone or povidone-iodine followed by ...
J.G. Davies +5 more
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Does hand care ruin hand disinfection?
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2001Hand washing and hand disinfection put considerable stress on the skin thus requiring specific hand care. It is important however that the care products do not impair the effect of hand disinfectants. We therefore investigated the interaction of two hand care products (oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions) on the microbicidal efficacy of different ...
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The Disinfection of the Hands — Quantitative Aspects
1976In the early days of microbiology the Viennese gynecologist SEMMELWEIS (1847) was the first to prove that the hands may act as very efficient vehicles for microbes on their way from one person or place to an other. He and in this country Lord LISTER demonstrated convincingly that disinfection procedures may block this way of transmission and, by this ...
W. Koller +3 more
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The importance of hand disinfection prior to surgery
British Journal of Nursing, 2011'Hand washing is a practice we perform ritualistically, but as healthcare professionals we need to appreciate its importance in clinical practice and not become complacent about it' (Kerr, 1998).
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2019
Surgical hand disinfection reduces transient and sometimes permanent skin flora on the hands and thereby reduces the contamination of the surgical wound through small lesions, holes and damages to the gloves. Perforations of surgical gloves have been associated with a surgical site infection rate of 5.7%, compared to no perforation: 1.7%.
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Surgical hand disinfection reduces transient and sometimes permanent skin flora on the hands and thereby reduces the contamination of the surgical wound through small lesions, holes and damages to the gloves. Perforations of surgical gloves have been associated with a surgical site infection rate of 5.7%, compared to no perforation: 1.7%.
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