Touch sensitivity with sterile standard surgical gloves and single-use protective gloves

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 959-961

  Tiefenthaler, W ^a   Gimpl, S ^a   Wechselberger, G ^a   Benzer, Arnulf ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL GLOVE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FINGERS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; PRESSURE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH;

EID: 33748595830     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04789.x     Document Type: Article

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