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- Title
Cut-resistant protective gloves in pathologyâeffective and cost-effective.
- Authors
Manfred Dietel; Wilko Weichert; Ann-Christin Buckendahl
- Abstract
Abstract  Cutting injuries and needle-stitch injuries constitute a potentially fatal danger to both pathologists and autopsy personnel. We evaluated such injuries in a large German institute of pathology from 2002 to 2007 and analysed the effect of the introduction of cut-resistant gloves on the incidence of these injuries. In the observation period, 64 injuries (48 cutting injuries and 16 needle-stitch injuries) were noted in the injury report books. Most injuries were located at the non-dominant hand, preferentially at the index finger and the thumb. Around one fifths of the injuries were at the side of handedness. The average number of injuries per month was 1.22 for the 50months prior to the introduction of cut-resistant gloves, more than seven times higher than after their introduction (0.158; 19months; p
- Subjects
WOUNDS &; injuries; PATHOLOGY; AUTOPSY; PATHOLOGISTS
- Publication
Virchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology, 2008, Vol 452, Issue 3, p313
- ISSN
0945-6317
- Publication type
Article