The current study investigates orthopaedic surgeons' cell phones as a potential source of nosocomial infection in the operating room. On the basis of the high percentage of cell phone contamination found, we would recommend periodic cell phone cleaning with either the wipes used in our study or similar ones. In addition, given that there was a high contamination rate one week after disinfection, we would recommend considering cell phone cleaning more frequently than once a week.

Clinicians should consider use of these views to evaluate dorsal screw penetration after volar plating but may opt to subtract a few millimeters from their measured screw lengths to avoid over penetration past the dorsal cortex.