Non-sterile gloves are just as effective as sterile gloves in preventing surgical site infection after minor skin surgeries.

natural rubber latex is the second most implicated agent in intraoperative anaphylactic reactions. this report describes a case of intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a non-atopic fourteen-year-old girl undergoing multiple surgical procedures, but without spina bifida, in which latex surgical gloves were the main culprit for the anaphylactic reactions. clinical manifestations of an anaphyla...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether use of colored indicator gloves affects perforation detection rate and to identify risk factors for glove perforation during veterinary orthopedic surgery. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. SAMPLE POPULATION 574 double pairs of gloves worn during 300 orthopedic surgical procedures (2,296 gloves). METHODS Primary and assistant surgeons dou...

BACKGROUND A prospective analysis was carried out over a 1-year period to assess gloves used during 100 major and 100 minor oral surgical procedures to test for efficacy of double gloving in oral surgical procedures. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of double gloving technique in preventing cross infection in both major and minor oral surgical procedures. MATERIA...

AIM To analyze tears in sterile surgical gloves used by surgeons in the operating theatre of the Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery Department, Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Łódź, Poland. MATERIALS AND METHOD This study analyzes tears in sterile surgical gloves used by surgeons by ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. 1,404 gloves were collected from 581 surgical procedures. All gloves were tested immediately f...

Seventy nine (13%) punctures were identified in 612 gloves. Gloves from the left hand showed the highest incidence of punctures. No puncture was observed in 100 gloves tested as a control. The results showed that glove puncture was more likely to occur in gloves worn on left (nonworking) hand overall as compared with gloves from the right hand. Gloves used for surgical procedures in which wires...

BACKGROUND Surgical gloves provide a protective barrier for patients and members of the surgical team. Although glove integrity is important in an era of blood-borne pathogens, little data exist on bacterial passage after glove perforation. This study evaluated the impact of antimicrobial surgical gloves in reducing microbial passage after glove puncture in a model of wound contamination. MET...

In this note we describe the standard technical maneuver used in our department to protect the skin during thyroidectomy in order to get the best aesthetic result. We use surgical gloves to protect the skin during these operations to reduce the negative impact of thermal trauma and mechanical retractors and energy delivery devices at the edges of the skin incised. This practice is effective, in...

background and aims. dental practitioners are prone to occupational risk of infection. this can be prevented in part by wearing gloves. however, for this to be effective, gloves should be intact during the entire course of dental procedure. leaky surgical latex gloves have been seen in 0.9% of cases before use. as much as 1.9% of latex gloves have been reported to be damaged during dental proce...