Did you know there’s a better way to double-glove?1
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Protexis® Undergloves from Cardinal Health are blue to help improve the practice of double-gloving. Double-gloving with a colored underglove offers enhanced protection and helps to increase safety.1
- Our blue undergloves contain Neu-Thera® Emollient Coating to moisturize and soothe hands during wear.13
- They are 15 percent thinner14 to enhance tactile sensitivity without compromising tensile strength.
- Since 2013, leading healthcare institutions have purchased over 33 million pairs of our blue undergloves, growing over 40% during this time.15
Top 5 reasons you should be double-gloving during surgery:
Wearing two surgical gloves significantly reduces infection risk to operating room personnel.2 The second glove helps protect against bloodborne pathogens when the outer glove is punctured.3
For relatively low cost, double-gloving helps provide a high level of protection. The interior glove reduces exposure to patient blood by as much as 87% when the outer glove is punctured.4
Double-gloving is recommended for invasive surgeries by OSHA5, AORN6, ACS7, AAOS8, NICE9 and SHEA/IDSA.10
Colored undergloves can help improve occupational safety. Research shows that most punctures are tiny and identified only after surgery, not at the time of the incident.11
Colored undergloves increased awareness of perforations to synthetic outer gloves from 12% to 56% and reduced time to awareness from 67 seconds to 42 seconds.12
177 percent of perforations can be detected with an indicator under the gloves, compared with only 21 percent in standard double-gloving, and even fewer with single-glove technique. Walijee J, Malay S, Chung K. Sharps Injuries: The Risks and Relevance to Plastic Surgeons. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 131: 784, 2013.
2Tanner J, Parkinson H. Double gloving to reduce surgical cross-infection. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jul 19;(3):CD003087
3O A Arowolo et al. Safety of the surgeon: Double-Gloving during surgical procedures. SAJHIVMED December 2014, Vol. 15, No. 4.
4Berguer R, Heller PJ. Preventing sharps injuries in the operating room. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2004;199(3):462-467.
5OSHA Technical Manual Section VI: Chapter 1. Hospital Investigations: Health Hazards. Available at https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_vi/otm_vi_1.html. Accessed November 2015.
6AORN Guideline for Sterile Technique from 2015 Guidelines for Perioperative Practice.
7“Revised Statement on Sharps Safety.” American College of Surgeons. October 2016. https://www.facs.org/about-acs/statements/94-sharps-safety. Accessed October 2020.
8“Information Statement 1018: Preventing the Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens.” American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. https://www.aaos.org/globalassets/about/bylaws-library/information-statements/1018-preventing-the-transmission-of-bloodborne-pathogens.pdf. Accessed November 2020.
9“Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment.” National Institute for Health and Care Institute. August 2020. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng125/resources/surgical-site-infections-prevention-and-treatment-pdf-66141660564421. Accessed October 2020.
10 “Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update.” Cambridge University Press. May 2016. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/strategies-to-prevent-surgical-site-infections-in-acute-care-hospitals-2014-update/EE4D1EC09206F231C69CB0E1A3F4EAC9. Accessed October 2020.
11Thomas-Copeland, Do Surgical Personnel Really Need to Double-Glove? AORN Journal, FEBRUARY 2009, VOL 89, NO 2; page 327.
12Florman S, Burgdof M, Finigan K, Slakey D, Hewitt R, Nichols RL. Efficacy of double gloving with an intrinsic indicator system. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2005;6(4):385-395.
13Data on file with Cardinal Health. California Skin Research Institute Study, Project Number 03-118.
14As compared to Cardinal Health™ Protexis® PI Surgical Gloves.
152013-2015 Sales Data on file with Cardinal Health.