ReliaPoint™ cutting needles will replace conventional cutting needles. And they’ll be available in all Medtronic suture materials. Netherlands. Surgeons and assistants performing laparotomies, abdominal closure: fascia. Number studied: 200 procedures, 400 operators and 406 pairs of gloves. Intervention group n = 200 surgeon‐operations. Control group n = 100 surgeon‐operations. Gloves changed before skin closure. TS=(random* OR control* OR trial OR trials OR "single blind" OR "double blind" OR "triple blind" OR "latin square" OR placebo* OR comparative OR "follow up" OR prospectiv* OR "cross over" OR volunteer*)

The basis for the assumed risk (e.g. the median control group risk across studies) is provided in footnotes. The corresponding risk (and its 95% confidence interval) is based on the assumed risk in the comparison group and the relative effect of the intervention (and its 95% CI).nursing or nurse or nurses or physician or physicians or "health care personnel" or "health personnel" or "health care worker" or "health care workers" or "Clinicians*" or "Dentist*" or "Health‐Personnel" or "Medical Personnel" or "Military‐Medical‐Personnel" or "Nurses*" or "Physician*" or "Psychiatric‐Hospital‐Staff*" or "medical students" or "hospitals" or "occupational exposure" or "occupational exposures").mp. [mp=title, abstract, heading word, table of contents, key concepts]

Blunt filter needles , which are filler needles with an extra filter attachment. This filter keeps out any solid particles from the liquid solution, especially if it’s been mixed from a powdered form. UK. Consultants or registrars performing mass closure of the abdomen: fascial and muscle layers. Number studied: 85 patients. Intervention group n = 46 surgeon‐operations, control group n = 39 surgeon‐operations, 85 pairs of gloves observed. Gloves changed before closure commenced. UK. 17 surgeons performing standard wound closure after hip arthroplasties, skin closed with staple machine. Number studied: 69 operations. Surgeons were double gloved. We used only holes in outer gloves for the outcome. Intervention group n = 38 surgeon‐operations. Control group n = 31 surgeon‐operations. Outer pair of gloves changed before insertion of prosthetic components and before wound closure. Outcome: number of glove perforations per total number of operations (also in RevMan analyses) but all surgeons were single gloved. Perforation detection: The gloves were filled with water and perforations were noted as jets of water. Secondary outcome: user satisfaction.

Overview

All studies used blunt or tapered needles as the intervention and compared them to sharp or conventional suture needles. randomized controlled trial]/lim OR [controlled clinical trial]/lim OR random* OR 'double blind' OR 'single blind' OR (singl* OR doubl* OR trebl* OR tripl* AND (blind* OR mask*)) OR 'single blind procedure'/exp OR 'double blind procedure'/exp OR 'triple blind procedure'/exp OR placebo* OR 'controlled study'/exp OR 'cross sectional study'/exp OR 'crossover procedure'/exp OR 'latin square design'/exp OR 'follow up'/exp OR 'comparative study'/exp OR 'evaluation studies'/exp OR 'evaluation study' OR prospectiv* OR volunteer*] nurse OR nurses OR physician OR physicians OR hospital* OR "health occupation" OR "health occupations" OR "health personnel" OR "health care personnel" OR "health care worker" OR "health care workers" OR "health worker" OR "health workers"}