Effectiveness of Standard Hand Hygiene Procedure Versus Hand Rub against Transient Bacterial Flora on hands: Literature Review

Ms. Betcy Pappachan; Dr. Anil Sharma; Mr. Anil Patidar

Volume : X, Issue : IV, April - 2020

Effectiveness of Standard Hand Hygiene Procedure Versus Hand Rub against Transient Bacterial Flora on hands: Literature Review

Ms. Betcy Pappachan, Dr. Anil Sharma, Mr. Anil Patidar

Abstract :

Researcher attempts to evaluate efficiency of two distinctive hand cleanliness measures on microbiota level on hands of medical personnels. Disinfecting hands is simple and cost effective method for prevention of nosocomial infections. Cleaning the hand using soaps and ethanol based sanitizer both helps in eliminating majority of life threatening bacteria. In this study, efficacy of both the hand hygiene methods is compared in order to find out which microbes are killed and which are not destroyed from hand hygiene measures. It was concluded with this review of literature that certain microbes like C.difficle are eliminated only by washing hands using water and soap, whereas in some cases alcoholic hand rub is much more effective method.