Introduction: Surgical gloves are used to prevent contamination of the patient and the hospital staff with pathogens. The aim of this study was to examine the actual effectiveness of gloves by examining the damage (perforations, tears) to latex gloves during surgery in the case of primary hip and knee prosthesis implantation. Materials and methods: Latex surgical gloves used by surgeons for pri...

Introduction / objectives Surgical gloves create a protective barrier, however high perforation rates (6%>60%) are reported in the literature. A recent study has suggested linkage between glove perforation and increased risk of SSI. This investigation evaluated a model of microbial passage through conventional single (A), double-thickness (B) and a tri-layer innovative surgical glove (C) with a...

This paper describes an alphanumeric input algorithm using gloves. We list and discuss traditional algorithms and methods using a glove, then describe an improved algorithm using gloves. An efficiency test was conducted and the results were compared with other glove based devices and algorithms.

A system for recovering 3D hand pose from monocular color sequences is proposed. The system employs a non-linear supervised learning framework, the specialized mappings architecture (SMA), to map image features to likely 3D hand poses. The SMA’s fundamental components are a set of specialized forward mapping functions, and a single feedback matching function. The forward functions are estimated...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Wearing of gloves reduces transmission of organisms by healthcare workers' hands but is not a substitute for hand hygiene. Results of previous studies have varied as to whether hand hygiene is worse when gloves are worn. Most studies have been small and used nonstandardized assessments of glove use and hand hygiene. We sought to observe whether gloves were worn when app...

Sir, Ultrasonography (USG) is nowadays routinely used in anesthesia and critical care practice for nerve blocks, central venous cannulation, and tapping of pleural or pericardial effusions. There have been reports of bacterial infections transmitted through ultrasound probe and coupling gel.[1] To prevent or minimize the risk of infection, USG probe and its cable are generally wrapped in commer...

In this paper we describe The Reading Glove: a non-linear adaptive tangible narrative system in which interactors piece together a narrative puzzle by interacting with a collection of physical artifacts. The Reading Glove uses an adaptive system to assist the reader in making sense of the complicated web of narrative information.

GloVe is an algorithm which associates a vector to each word such that the dot product of two words corresponds to the likelihood they appear together in a large corpus ([PSM14]). GloVe vectors achieve state-of-the-art performance on word analogy tasks (v(king) − v(man) + v(woman) ≈ v(queen)), but they are limited to capturing meanings of individual words. In our project, we develop “biGloVe,” ...