Surgical gloves: allergic reactions and perception of effectiveness in the excibition prevention corporal fluids for the surgical team
Keywords:
surgical gloves1 allergic reactions, equipments oi individual protection, quali'ty of materiais.Abstract
The study ob;écti!ied 1denttfy the types of gloves used in surgerie s1 allergic reactions and to investigate its characteristics with relationship to the resistance1 sensib11ity comfort and causes ofintegrity loss. The glove used was the one of simple latex. The /re q uency oi allergic reactions went superior to lound them in literature1 being the tale the main agen t. The results suggest that the integrity and the allergic reactions depend more on the quality oi the glo ves and conditions of the surgery, that of the type of gloves . The fact of those results not always they have coincided with the one of the researched hterature suggest that the evaluation of the gloves should not /iinit you just test1 but to also consider the individual perception oi the ones that uses them.References
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