Open AccessDo Modern Spectacles Endanger Surgeons?
Author(s) -
Simon J. Chong,
Charlotte Smith,
Adam Bialostocki,
Christopher McEwan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000252406.94464.16
Subject(s) - medicine , eye protection , medical prescription , optometry , eyewear , population , surgery , nursing , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics , advertising , business
Despite documented cases of infectious disease transmission to medical staff via conjunctival contamination and widespread recommendation of protective eyewear use during surgical procedures, a large number of surgeons rely on their prescription spectacles as sole eye protection. Modern fashion spectacles, being of increasingly slim design, may no longer be adequate in this role.