Creating a Consensus document for surgical gloving best practice – Part 1
The first part 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 and gloves are protecting the hands and are an essential part of maintain the aseptic barrier during the surgical procedure. Many glove users don’t know how gloves are made and the different materials they can be made of, and what impact that might have on durability and performance.
Neither are most users aware that there is a wealth of styles of surgical gloves to choose from, with different fit on the hand. At the end of the day, these differences could actually affect surgical performance and safety as well as long term hand health.
In this episode
Dr Tod Brindle will also address some of the challenges a Consensus work group is likely to be facing when performing a systematic review 1 using the PRISMA methodology 2 while preventing bias selection 3 and finally using the so called Delphi method for the voting process.
Hands & gloves
Hands and gloves hold many of the critical keys to infection prevention, OR efficiency and surgical best practices. Hear more from your peers about OR practice, gloving and other surgical-glove-related topics in the podcast series, Hands & gloves.
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Gloves | 2 min read Culture of OR safety: Double gloving for effective hand protection
Improving surgical gloving practice
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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 | 1 min read The new generation of (NRL) surgical gloves
Surgical gloves and raw materials – time for re-appraisal?
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Gloves | 1 min read Creating a Consensus document for surgical gloving best practice - Part 2
Part two discusses the role of a Consensus work to overcome the challenges of implementing change.
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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 | 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 | 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 Strategies for active OR quality improvement
Using improvement science to drive change in the operating room
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Gloves | 2 min read Cochrane reviews on double-gloving
The efficacy of double-gloving to reduce the risk of an inner-glove perforation and increase the detection of perforations when they occurred has been evaluated in two different Cochrane systematic reviews 1 2.
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References
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 6.4, 2023. https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current
- PRISMA methodology https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/PRISMA%20
- Risk of bias https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/preventing%20bias%20in%20selection
- Niederberger M and Spranger J (2020) Delphi Technique in Health Sciences: A Map. Front. Public Health 8:457. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00457