Are Our Hands Still Clean?

“Clean Hands Save Lives,” we have heard it numerous times. But are our hands really clean? We realized that the most neglected parts of our hands are the most medial part of the little finger and palm and the most lateral part of the index finger and palm. Putting an emphasis on it, we put forward t...

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Autores principales: Bajaj, Ankur, Chaurasiya, Neha, Tripathi, Manjul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021
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Letter to Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34177188
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23824
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description “Clean Hands Save Lives,” we have heard it numerous times. But are our hands really clean? We realized that the most neglected parts of our hands are the most medial part of the little finger and palm and the most lateral part of the index finger and palm. Putting an emphasis on it, we put forward two additional steps in the routine handwashing technique increasing to 9 steps instead of the previous 7. How to cite this article: Bajaj A, Chaurasiya N, Tripathi M. Are Our Hands Still Clean? Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(5):601–602.
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spelling pubmed-81963822021-06-24 Are Our Hands Still Clean? Bajaj, Ankur Chaurasiya, Neha Tripathi, Manjul Indian J Crit Care Med Letter to Editor “Clean Hands Save Lives,” we have heard it numerous times. But are our hands really clean? We realized that the most neglected parts of our hands are the most medial part of the little finger and palm and the most lateral part of the index finger and palm. Putting an emphasis on it, we put forward two additional steps in the routine handwashing technique increasing to 9 steps instead of the previous 7. How to cite this article: Bajaj A, Chaurasiya N, Tripathi M. Are Our Hands Still Clean? Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(5):601–602. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8196382/ /pubmed/34177188 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23824 Text en Copyright © 2021; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. 2021 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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