Background Surgeons and residents are at increased risk of exposure to blood-borne
pathogens owing to percutaneous injury (PI) and contamination. One method known to …

BACKGROUND: Exposure to blood and body fluids while operating places surgeons at risk.
Double gloving is a safety measure, which decreases this risk. However, many surgeons do …

Surgical team members are known to have a higher incidence of percutaneous injuries
compared with other health care workers, which increases surgical personnel's risk both of …

In 2007, AORN's Recommended Practices Task Force revised the “Recommended practices
on prevention of transmissible infections in the perioperative practice setting” to recommend …

Background Despite supporting evidence, many staff surgeons and surgical trainees do not
routinely double glove. We performed a study to assess rates of and attitudes toward double …

OBJECTIVE: To determine how often surgeons use strategies to prevent the transmission of
bloodborne diseases and what factors are associated with the use of these strategies …

BACKGROUND: Surgical teams rely on surgical gloves as a barrier to protect themselves
against blood-borne pathogenic infections during surgery. Double-gloving is adopted by …

Article-at-a-Glance Background The use of sterile surgical gloves has become the
international standard of care in the perioperative environment. Yet the potential for barrier …

Risk of infection from bloodborne pathogens makes it imperative for surgical team members
to detect surgical glove punctures before skin contact with pathogens occurs. The use of a …

Background: The risk of exposure of either the patient or the surgeon to communicable
disease when the surgical glove is perforated is important. Both patients and the surgical …