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PURPOSE:To assess the level of awareness among UK ophthalmic surgeons of the potential risks from starch powdered surgical gloves during ophthalmic surgery and to show by electron microscopy that starch granule contamination can occur during ophthalmic surgery. SETTING:A sample (N = 46) of UK ophthalmologists from the North of England, UK. METHODS:Type of glove usage and awareness of the possible risks from starch powdered surgical gloves were assessed by means of a questionnaire sent to ophthalmic surgeons in the North of England. The surface of a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) intraocular lens (IOL) handled with a starch powdered surgical glove was examined by electron microscopy for evidence of starch contamination. RESULTS:Of the sampled ophthalmic surgeons (46), 89.1% considered it important to use starch free surgical gloves and the 84.8% already did so. Starch granule contamination was seen by electron microscopy on the surface of a PMMA IOL which had been handled with starch powdered surgical gloves. CONCLUSIONS:Although there has been sporadic attention in the ophthalmic literature to the risks associated with starch powdered surgical gloves in ophthalmology, up to 15% of UK ophthalmic surgeons may still be using starch powdered gloves. The authors show that starch powder contamination of ophthalmic materials can actually occur and remind ophthalmologists that this has been reported in the literature as a possible cause of sterile intra and extraocular inflammation.
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Int Ophthalmoljournal_title
International ophthalmologyauthors
Sellar PW,Sparrow RAdoi
10.1023/a:1006392915801subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
247-51issue
4eissn
0165-5701issn
1573-2630journal_volume
22pub_type
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