New advances in electronic devices for hole detection.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-1994
Abstract
Holes in surgical gloves are considered to be an important source of transmission of pathogens between surgeon and patient. Two new glove hole detectors have been devised to alert the surgeon to the presence of holes. These devices have been evaluated using six powder-free and seven powdered varieties of surgical gloves that were either dry or exposed to hydration. Eight of the 13 surgical gloves hydrated rapidly with water, altering their resistance to the conduction of electricity. Because the Barrier Integrity Monitor¿ only has a hydration monitor, 68 false positives occurred during the evaluation, indicating to the surgeon that he/she should change gloves unnecessarily because the glove had no hole. In contrast, the Surgic Alert Monitor¿ (SAM¿) had a hydration alarm as well as a glove hole detection alarm. During the 104 tests, the SAM¿ device showed no false positives. In the testing of five of the rapidly hydrating types of surgical gloves, the SAM¿ device could not reliably detect holes. On the basis of this study, the SAM¿ device, in conjunction with gloves that resist hydration, appeared to be a reliable hole detection monitor.
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
257
Last Page
264
ISSN
1045-4861
Published In/Presented At
Cox, M. J., Bromberg, W. J., Zura, R. D., Foresman, P. A., Morgan, R. G., & Edlich, R. F. (1994). New advances in electronic devices for hole detection. Journal of applied biomaterials : an official journal of the Society for Biomaterials, 5(3), 257–264. https://doi.org/10.1002/jab.770050312
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
10147452
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article