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[nimbus]

The current recommendations are to wash your hands before donning gloves for every single procedure and before examining every single patient. Some surgeons also wear a disposable sterile knit liner under their impermeable gloves. You’ll be viewed as a good soldier in the war on germs. More hand washing is always better.

 

[Smurfette]

The current recommendations are to wash your hands before donning gloves for every single procedure and before examining every single patient. Some surgeons also wear a disposable sterile knit liner under their impermeable gloves. You’ll be viewed as a good soldier in the war on germs. More hand washing is always better.

I've never heard of anyone using a disposable sterile knit liner; this is not common practice. I guarantee if I ask about these in the OR, I will get blank stares and they won't know what I'm talking about.
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No one cares per se if someone has sweaty hands in surgery. What matters in surgery is whether you sweat so badly you can't keep your gloves on. Gloves tend to expand during cases, so long cases and certain glove brands may be an issue. You can just change your gloves, but it depends on how often you have to change them as to whether it's an issue. If you double glove (as people should, but many of us don't), then you also have to change both layers if sweating is the problem; it's just a pain to pause in a case and change everything out, but it's not like it can't be done.

 

[nimbus]

I've never heard of anyone using a disposable sterile knit liner; this is not common practice. I guarantee if I ask about these in the OR, I will get blank stares and they won't know what I'm talking about.
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I know 2 surgeons who wear them for every case.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I've never heard of anyone using a disposable sterile knit liner; this is not common practice. I guarantee if I ask about these in the OR, I will get blank stares and they won't know what I'm talking about.

Yeah I’ve worked in multiple ORs around the country for a decade and never seen or heard of anything like that. Definitely not common practice. Two surgeons doing it definitely does not constitute “common.”

 

[Lawpy]

Yeah I’ve worked in multiple ORs around the country for a decade and never seen or heard of anything like that. Definitely not common practice. Two surgeons doing it definitely does not constitute “common.”

SDN continues to teach me more on surgery practices. From Senn retractors having unique names (rather than having several different names) to disposable sterile kit liners being uncommon