High Risk of Surgical Glove Perforation From Surgical Rotatory Instruments.

CONCLUSION: Surgical gloves caught in a rotatory power instrument are likely to have been perforated, regardless of the amount of time that they had been worn. Visual inspection appears to be an inadequate test of glove integrity. When a glove becomes entangled in a rotary instrument such as a drill, pin, or reamer, a surgeon should change the gloves regardless of whether he or she believes a perforation is present.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic study.
PMID: 27339122 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - June 22, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Goldman AH, Haug E, Owen JR, Wayne JS, Golladay GJ Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research