Highlights
- •One milliliter handrub is not sufficient for effective hand hygiene.
- •Three milliliter handrub cover small hands on both sides palms and dorsums.
- •Three milliliter handrub cover palms but not dorsums of medium and large hands.
Visitors of an infection prevention and control conference performed hand hygiene
with 1, 2, or 3 mL ultraviolet light-traced alcohol-based handrub. Coverage of palms,
dorsums, and fingertips were measured by digital images. Palms of all hand sizes were
sufficiently covered when 2 mL was applied, dorsums of medium and large hands were
never sufficiently covered. Palmar fingertips were sufficiently covered when 2 or
3 mL was applied, and dorsal fingertips were never sufficiently covered.
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Published online: August 24, 2016
Footnotes
HandInScan Kft provided the device free of charge. DP has obtained a grant from the Swiss National Foundation in the field of hand hygiene (No. 32003B_163262).
WZ and TH participated in the conception and design of the study and contributed to the collection of data; WZ did the statistical analysis of data and wrote the first draft of the manuscript; and WZ, TH, and DP reviewed and contributed to subsequent drafts and approved the final version submitted for publication.
Conflicts of interest: TH is a cofounder of HandInScan Kft.
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