There is evidence indicating that improvements in infection control practice can reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infection. This article explores the evidence base for glove use and aseptic technique. There is a lack of evidence regarding the influence of sterile versus clean gloves in clinical care. Therefore in practice, clean and aseptic techniques are often used interchangeabl...

PURPOSE To report 15 years' experience of musculoskeletal tissue banking by the National University Hospital Tissue Bank. METHODS This study describes the development of Singapore's national bone bank since its establishment in 1988. The bone bank's protocol follows guidelines recommended by the American Association of Tissue Banks and the European Association of Tissue Banks using strict don...

A bstract We analytically calculate the neutrino conversion probability P μe in presence of sterile neutrinos, with exact dependence on $$ \Delta {m}_{41}^2 ∆ m 41 2 and matter effects explicitly included. Using perturbative...

Numerous techniques have been reported for preparing and sterilizing amniotic membrane (AM) for use in clinical applications. However, these preparations either do not produce completely sterile tissue or are detrimental to molecules unique to the tissue matrix, thus compromising beneficial wound-healing properties of the AM graft. The objective of this work was to produce a sterile human AM ti...

INTRODUCTION Contamination of pharmaceutical preparations by micro-organisms continues to be a matter of concern to the pharmacists. From the beginning it has been an official requirement that parenteral preparations shall be sterile. More recently a number of serious infections in the eye in Britain and elsewhere have resulted in the further requirement that all preparations used in the eye sh...

BACKGROUND Beyond insecticides, alternative methods to control insect pests for agriculture and vectors of diseases are needed. Management strategies involving the mass-release of living control agents have been developed, including genetic control with sterile insects and biological control with parasitoids, for which aerial release of insects is often required. Aerial release in genetic contr...

INTRODUCTION We present a retrospective descriptive study of cases admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital from March 2005 to October 2005 with complications of Subutex abuse. CLINICAL PICTURE A total of 8 patients were studied. Of the 8, 7 were male and one was female. Their complications consist of the following: arterial pseudoaneurysm (2), arterial pseudoaneurysm with infective venous thrombus...

PURPOSE Evaluation of the magnitude and pattern of bacterial contamination of needle points with conjunctival bacteria during the intravitreal injection. Analysis of the efficacy of preinjection prophylaxis. METHODS A total of 550 intravitreal injections were done in 414 patients (n=425 eyes). A total of 289 patients were injected once, while 125 patients received several injections. Before t...