Chemicals in surgical gloves get a bad rap, but they are not always the bad guy. What challenges and opportunities drive the future of medical glove development?
Can we create medical gloves without chemicals – and better yet, do we need to?
Allergies, standards and innovation all play significant roles in the development of medical and surgical gloves.
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하이든 윌리엄스(Haydn Williams) 박사는 라텍스 알레르기가 장갑 제조에 어떤 영향을 미쳤는지, 장갑 내 잔류 화학물질을 포함한 다양한 장갑 특성을 측정하는 데 표준이 어떻게 도움이 되는지, 그리고 이것이 실제로 어떤 의미를 갖는지에 대해 자세히 설명합니다.
Standards and measures
Dr. Haydn Williams says no, in fact, it makes more sense to be able to apply standardisation to medical gloves to test and report residual chemicals in gloves.
Chemicals yes, accelerators no
Medical gloves without the use of chemical accelerators may be possible, but chemicals are here to stay – and they aren’t the bad guy. They are in the glove for a reason.
Refocus
Preserving the properties of gloves that practitioners – and especially surgeons – need will require that manufacturers focus on the removal of chemicals that might cause allergic reactions, reduce chemicals in the focus on different techniques to reduce chemicals in the final product and keep looking at innovations in manufacture to make gloves from which the accelerators disappears.
