PMID: 15330033Aug 28, 2004Paper

Glove perforation in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. A comparison between single, double indicator gloving and double gloving with two regular gloves

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume
T Laine, P Aarnio

Abstract

The spread of viral diseases such as HIV has highlighted the importance of protecting medical personnel against contamination from blood. We have assessed the frequency of the perforation of surgical gloves during orthopaedic and trauma surgery and compared the efficiency of single and double gloving. We examined all the gloves used by surgeons for a period of two months. There were 1769 gloves from 349 operations. Perforations occurred in 18.5% of conventional and 5.8% of arthroscopic procedures. The risk of contamination from blood was 13 times higher when using single compared with double gloves. Surprisingly, the combination of two regular gloves was much less efficient than double indicator gloves when comparing the rate of perforation of the inner glove when the outer had been damaged (24% vs 4.9%; p = 0.02). We recommend double gloving in orthopaedic surgery in general and also in long arthroscopic procedures.

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