Non-sterile gloves
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Regardless of infection rates, I suspect most providers would keep the gloves on to avoid touching the patient’s blood.
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Regardless of infection rates, I suspect most providers would keep the gloves on to avoid touching the patient’s blood.
@jon-nyc said in Non-sterile gloves:
Regardless of infection rates, I suspect most providers would keep the gloves on to avoid touching the patient’s blood.
Yeah.
Interestingly, "back in the day," we never wore gloves. HIV, Hepatitis, and other things were just things were didn't know about, or didn't care about.
Up to the time I retired, I had a hard time wearing gloves for things that required a "touch." Arterial lines, for example, were particularly troublesome for me with gloves.
Probably how I contracted hepatitis C.
Though, it could have been putting in all those NG tubes without gloves...
(and before you ask, I cleared it on my own with no medical intervention).
