Erschienen in:
10.08.2016 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: High Risk of Surgical Glove Perforation From Surgical Rotatory Instruments
verfasst von:
Ronald W. Lindsey, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 11/2016
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Excerpt
The German surgeon Paul Leopold first used rubber surgical gloves in the late 1800s, and William Halstead popularized the use of sterile medical gloves at Johns Hopkins around 1894 [
11]. Since their introduction, surgical gloves have had one of the most fundamental roles in modern healthcare: To protect the patient from surgical wound contamination. In more recent years, they have fulfilled another important purpose: To protect medical personnel from exposure to blood borne pathogens like human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B and C viruses. …