Occlusive clothing and ultraviolet radiation in hip surgery.
In a randomized study of 20 total hip arthroplasties, the staff wore shirts and trousers of a fabric impervious to bacteria underneath operating gowns of a non-woven material. Volumetric air sampling demonstrated a low number of colony-forming units with this clothing, further reduced by ultraviolet radiation to below 10 colony-forming units/m3, the upper limit of "ultraclean air," in all the cases (median 2.6, range 1.1-7.1).
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University of Lund Department of Orthopedics, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
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D000391:Air Microbiology; D001407:Bacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003020:Clothing; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008837:Micrococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009873:Operating Rooms; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays