TY  - JOUR
T1  - SUrgical glove perforation and the risk of surgical site infection—invited critique
AU  - Cornwell EE, III
Y1  - 2009/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2009.71
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 558
EP  - 558
VL  - 144
IS  - 6
N2  - 
This 2-year study by Misteli and colleagues relates SSI to the incidence of surgical glove perforation in more than 4100 general surgery patients. Glove perforation occurred in 16.3% of cases and rose dramatically in cases lasting longer than 2 hours (34.0% vs 9.4%). Surgical site infection was identified in 7.5% of the cases in which there was a glove perforation vs 3.9% when there was none. The essence of the study resides in the multivariate logistic regression analysis, by which glove perforation was found to be a significant risk factor for SSI but only in cases in which prophylactic antibiotics were not used.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.71
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.71
ER  -