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Surgical Glove Changing: The New Best Practice
About this Course
Gloves protect both the patient and the healthcare worker during surgery by acting as a barrier. However, the barrier gloves provide can become compromised over time and with certain surgical procedures. Needle sticks, sharps injury, and perforations can occur, exposing the patient and health care worker to infectious disease.1
This program will cover the evolution and history of surgical gloves; glove perforations and sharps injuries; the infection risk for the glove wearer and patient; double gloving and glove changing research; best glove practices; and current guidelines and standards of practice for glove changing.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the frequency of glove perforations and sharps injuries that occur in the operating room (OR).
- Identify risks for the patient and health care worker as a result of glove perforations.
- Outline guidelines and best practice based on evidence-based research for surgical glove changing.
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