Do your surgical glove characteristics and wearing habits affect your tactile sensibility?

ABSTRACT:

Backround

Tactile sensibility plays a critical role in medicine, especially in surgical practice. In order to prevent surgical site infections and protect the surgeon, the use of surgical gloves is standard practice. However, wearing these might affect the sensibility of the hand disadvantageously, especially in disciplines that require precision work.

Methods

We evaluated the influence of six different glove types, as well as gloves wearing habits (double gloving, over- and undersized gloves) on tactile sensibility using two-point-discrimination and Semmes-Weinstein monofilament testing in 27 non-surgeons.

Results

There were significant differences regarding tactile sensibility of gloved compared to bare hands and between different types of gloves. While undersized g

SUBMITTER: Moog P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452141 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature