Creating a Consensus document for surgical gloving best practice podcast (part 1)
The first part of this podcast discusses the need to create a Consensus document with recommendations for surgical gloving best practice.
Hands are the most important tool in the operating room. Gloves protect the hands and are an essential part of maintaining the aseptic barrier during the surgical procedure. Many glove users don’t know how gloves are made, the different materials they can be made from and what impact that might have on durability and performance.
Most users are also unaware that there is a wide variety of surgical glove styles to choose from, with different fits on the hand. At the end of the day, these differences could affect surgical performance and safety as well as long term hand health.
Hands & gloves podcast
Hands and gloves hold many of the critical keys to infection prevention, operating room (OR) efficiency and surgical best practices. Hear more from your peers about OR practices, gloving and other surgical glove-related topics in the podcast series Hands & gloves.
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Gloves | 2 min read Strategies for active OR quality improvement
Using improvement science to drive change in the operating room
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Gloves | 4 min read Double gloving for complete protection
In discussion with surgeons and other operating room (OR) staff, such as surgical nurses, safety for their patients and for themselves is a key concern.
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Gloves | 1 min read Balancing practice and theory in the OR
Swedish OR nurses’ preventive interventions to reduce bacterial growth and SSIs, and to increase comfort in patients undergoing surgery
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Gloves | 1 min read OR sustainability: A holistic system understanding
How do surgical gloves affect sustainability and the global environment?
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Gloves | 2 min read The role of chemicals in medical gloves
Challenges and opportunities with chemicals in surgical gloves: meeting customer expectations
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Gloves | 1 min read The new generation of (NRL) surgical gloves
Surgical gloves and raw materials – time for reappraisal?
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Gloves | 2 min read Protocol to practice: Single to double gloving
How to implement a double gloving protocol in practice
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Gloves | 2 min read Culture of operating room (OR) safety: Double gloving for effective hand protection
Improving surgical gloving practice
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Gloves | 2 min read Cochrane reviews on double gloving
The efficacy of double gloving in reducing the risk of an inner-glove perforation and increase the detection of perforations when they occur has been evaluated in two different Cochrane systematic reviews¹,².
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References
1. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 6.4, 2023. https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current
2. PRISMA methodology https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/PRISMA%20
3. Risk of bias https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/preventing%20bias%20in%20selection
4. Niederberger M and Spranger J (2020) Delphi Technique in Health Sciences: A Map. Front. Public Health 8:457. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00457