title: Biogel Super-Sensitive and Biogel Indicator glove systems.
abstract: Surgical gloves have been in use since the late 19th century. Initially, gloves were introduced to protect clinical staff from the carbolic acid used to sterilize equipment and prepare skin before surgery. During the mid-20th century emphasis was more towards protecting the patient from the clinician's skin flora and now, at the beginning of the 21st century, the balance lies between protecting the patient from the clinician and the clinician from the patient. The three main types of glove are latex, vinyl and polythene and they can be used singly or as part of a double gloving system. This article discusses how one hospital evaluated the glove systems Biogel Super-Sensitive and Biogel indicator underglove from Regent Medical (a division of SSL International). The results indicate that both systems are acceptable to clinical staff in a variety of specialty areas.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Theatres, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Nuneaton.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D005932:Gloves, Surgical; D006801:Humans