1. REUSE OF SAME GLOVES AFTER STERILE AND UNSTERILE PROCEDURES BY REPEATED USE OF HANDRUBS ANITA GEORGE DEPT. OF NEUROSURGERY JPN APEX TRAUMA CENTRE, AIIMS

5. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Clinical microbial rev,2004 oct:17(4):863-93 NAME AND YEAR STUDY RESULT Kampf G,Kramer A 2004 Epidemologic Background of hand hygiene & evaluation of the most important agents for rubs and scrubs The best antimicrobial activity can be achieved with ethanol(60-85%), isopropanol(60-80%) & n-propanol(60-80%) and the activity is broad and immediate.

6. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY cont. Med Princ Pract,2005 sep-oct:14(5):313-7 NAME AND YEAR STUDY RESULT Karabay O et.al. 2005 Compliance and efficacy of handrubbing during in-hospital practice. METHOD Hand cultures were taken before and after procedure. N=35 Handrubbing with alcohol based solutions significantly reduced the bacterial contaminationof the nurses more than handwashing (54 and 27%respectively). Compliance was also better in the handrubbing group than the handwashing group(72.5% and 15.4% respectively;p value=0.001)

10. UNSTERILE GLOVES WITHOUT HANDRUB

11. COLLECTION OF THE SAMPLE

13. USED GLOVES WITH HANDRUB

14. RUBBING THE USED GLOVES

15. DRYING THE GLOVES

16. COLLECTION OF THE SAMPLE

18. RESULTS P VALUE< 0.001 N=120 Culture negative Culture positive CONTROL GROUP(unsterile gloves) 36(60%) 24(40%) EXPERIMENTAL GROUP(unsterile gloves with handrub) 58(96.7%) 2(3.3%)