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How Safe Are Your Patients? - June 2016 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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I was nervous the day we made the big switch to all non-latex gloves in our operat- ing rooms. We'd been planning and research- ing for some time, but on the Monday morn- ing that the big changeover went into effect, I found myself waiting for the barbarians at the gate to explode out of the OR and hunt me down. Then some- thing amazing happened: nothing. No complaints. No threats of J U N E 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 8 9 We made the switch years ago, and have never looked back. Robert Brown, MD, MPH Baltimore, Md. How We Got Rid of Latex Gloves Once and for All • UP TO THE CHALLENGE The surgeons who perform microscopic surgeries at Johns Hopkins are perfectly content with the feel of non-latex gloves.

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