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Originally posted by arfmel:
They sure as shit aren’t sterile, or even clean, after touching the various items she handled wearing them. I don’t think it’s out of line to expect some measure of effort at cleanliness on the part of someone treating an open wound. I realize you don’t agree.

You are right. While some of the items mentioned MAY have been wiped down, leaving the room wearing the gloves is a pretty clear indication that they were not working very hard at infection control procedures.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:


I've worked in healthcare for almost 35 years, in half a dozen states, 25+ different facilities, and seven different capacities. Never has it been "SOP to double-glove" in anywhere I've been.

Stick to flying.

When I was a firefighter/EMT, and ran on an ambulance, it was standard to double glove. I do a bit more than fly.

EMT might be a different situation where it's highly likely to encounter people with needles in their pockets and knives and things of that sort.

Nowadays they make much thicker gloves like the black nitrile ones. I use those in my business for mechanical work and they're about 3x as thick as the white latex ones.

BUT, if it were me. I would've asked the lady to put on a new set of gloves. Gloves are VERY cheap.

Several years ago I went to have blood work done as part of my yearly physical.
I watched the technician handling several vials and sample cups of who knows what then come over to me to draw blood. He looked at me while he was doing this so he knew I saw him.
He starts the process and when I asked him to please wash his hands and put on new gloves he gets pissed at me,walks away and has the other technician draw my blood.
I was going to complain but I did not want my blood work to come back messed up and have to do it over again.

Interesting. Thank you Bendable and all who replied.

Yes, it used to be called “BSI or body substance isolation” following aids. Sometime later they renamed “universal protection; but make no mistake, in prehospital environ, it was for safety of the medic as nothing in that world could be considered sterile.

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Nobody has fondled my meat in quite a while.

I had mine fondled a lot a month and a half ago... during and after a stint was installed, for the next couple of days an unknown number of professionals checked the location where it was put in.... ever time someone came in the room they put on a pair of gloves and often they threw away the ones they had used and then put on another pair to do other things like mess with the 4 IVS ... which I had invested in the disposable glove business about 30 years ago.