Top 5 reasons you should be double-gloving during surgery

Wearing two surgical gloves significantly reduces infection risk to operating room personnel.¹ The second glove helps protect against bloodborne pathogens when the outer glove is punctured.²

Double-gloving helps provide a high level of protection. The interior glove reduces exposure to patient blood by as much as 87 percent when the outer glove is punctured.³

Double-gloving is recommended for invasive surgeries by the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention⁴, American Operating Nurse Associationa^5, British Journal of Surgery⁶, European Journal of Surgery⁷ and World Health Organization.⁸

Colored undergloves can help improve occupational safety. Research shows that most punctures are tiny and identified only after surgery, not at the time of the incident.

Colored undergloves increased awareness of perforations to synthetic outer gloves from 21% to 86%¹ and reduced time to awareness from 67 seconds to 42 seconds.⁹