Efficacy of a Novel Intraoperative Engineered Sharps Injury Prevention Device: Pilot Usability and Efficacy Trial.
Hillary E JennyMaria Reategui Via Y RadaPooja S YesantharaoKaran ChopraRichard J RedettJustin Michael SacksRobin YangPublished in: JMIR perioperative medicine (2020)
Operative Armour effectively functions as an ESIP device by decreasing intraoperative needle passing and handling. Although sample size prohibits demonstrating a decrease in NSIs during observed cases, by decreasing behaviors that drive NSI risk, we anticipate an associated decrease in NSIs with use of the device.