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Understanding the Issues of Double Gloving


DOUBLE GLOVING TECHNIQUE


Is there a proper technique for double gloving? After much experience with double gloving it has been the writer’s experience that double gloving is as personal as the choice of your ice cream flavor. You need to try several different combinations until you find the one that works for you. Some people find that a larger glove inside with a smaller one outside works for them, others use the same size glove for both inside and outside glove. The aforementioned study published in the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery found almost an equal distribution of glove sizes used by surgeons for double gloving: larger glove inside 31%, smaller glove inside 35% and both gloves the same size 31%.10

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