Kelsey Clarke posted: In school we are taught any moisture/condensation is absolute contamination. Also taught once you closed glove, to never touch the inner cuff (what touches your cloth cuff and gown) and if for some reason you need to pull up your gloves, to touch the outer cuff and pull up with finger tips only (excluding thumb, which would touch the inner glove and contaminate) As an ortho scrub, I wear the green Biogel indicator gloves size 8 with my top gloves being super sensitive Biogel size 7 & 1/2. I make a point to bring my top glove cuff past my green under glove cuff to minimize the roll down effect, however, I have RIDICULOUS condensation that is visible under my top glove. Inevitably, they work their way toward my wrists and my gown that was previously covered by a glove know has visible moisture. It FREAKS me out and no one can give me a straight answer other than yes thats contaminated. We keep our total joint rooms between 58-59 and Im very hot natured, so is it sweat? Or condensation from sweat? How can this be prevented? I feel like once they roll down im contaminated but cant touch my glove to pull them back up to cover the moisture. And its not exactly like I realize it immediately (our ortho guys knock out totals with tourniquet times of around 45 minutes) or could even degown and deglove, and scrub back in with new gown/gloves 4 times a case.. Im just lost as to how to resolve this. Aeger primo. I want the best for my patients. Any suggestions would be most appreciated! I suppose its worth mentioning moisture can wick orgamisms both ways, so could I have patient blood borne organisms wicking through that moisture through my gown onto my skin? Evidently the kimberly clark aami 3 level gowns we most frequently used arent impervious?? I was under the impression all surgical gowns were... if not.. then I think they absolutely should be. Advice?
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:19:44 +0000