Outpatient cutaneous surgical procedures are common and surgical gloves are standard practice to prevent postoperative surgical site infection. But, is there a difference in SSIs when sterile vs.

Surgical site infections are the leading cause of unplanned readmission after surgery and can result in increases in the length of hospitalization, morbidity, mortality, and health care costs.

An analysis of four previous trials found no significant difference in the risk of surgical site infections whether using sterile or nonsterile gloves to repair wounds, Palestinian doctors ...

It requires a sterile room, gloves, gowns, caps tools, and masks, along with handwashing and aseptic fields. Surgical aseptic technique. This is a strict form of aseptic technique that can be used ...

Surgeons who routinely change surgical gloves and instruments are incurring similar costs to those using the same equipment, a new study has found. The economic evaluation follows a clinical trial ...

(2024). Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection (ChEETAh): a model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of a pragmatic ...

There has been an acute shortage of surgical caps and an erratic supply of sterile gloves for the past few months at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG) and Government Hospital for ...