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Steve Jeffery

Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust

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The benefits of latex-free gloves in the operating room environment

Two key methods for the prevention of SSIs are surgical hand antisepsis and the use of personal protective equipment, such as sterile protective gloves (de Oliveira and Gama, 2016). In the 1980s, a...

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