Can anyone recommend any recent research that supports or disproves standard precautions such as double gloving and PPE in surgery?
Can you elaborate on the PPE? Double gloving has been the subject of a Cochrane Review http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003087.pub2/pdf
Double gloving carries less of a risk to surgeons of acquiring blood borne pathogens when operating on patients who pose an infection transmission risk-eg patients with Hepatitis C.
Dear Jemma
These articles may be useful for you
1) Am J Infect Control. 1999 Apr;27(2):97-132;. Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Mangram AJ1, Horan TC, Pearson ML, Silver LC, Jarvis WR
2) Review: Double gloving during surgery prevents perforations of the inner glove, but its effect on infection is unknown. Tanner J, Parkinson H: Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006 (3)
Precautions for the surgeon by wearables has been reviewed extensively. If you want safety for your patients you might want to take a look into the surgical checklists like SURPASS (E. de Vries, NEJM).
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