For surgeons getting ready to enter the operating room (OR), the chances of contamination may be lower if they put their gowns on by themselves - without the assistance of a surgical technician, ...

Cross contamination between a surgeon and a surgical technician in an operating room during gowning procedure is lower when surgeons put on their gowns by themselves. The chance of surgeons getting ...

Contamination occurs in most two-person assisted gowning procedures, suggests the study by Kenton Panas, MD, and colleagues of The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City. The ...