Double gloving is the practice of wearing two layers of medical gloves to reduce the danger of infection from glove failure or penetration of the gloves by sharp objects during medical procedures. A systematic review of the literature has shown double gloving to offer significantly more protection against inner glove perforation in surgical procedures compared to the use of a single glove layer 1) 2).
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Tanner, J; Parkinson, H (2002). “Double gloving to reduce surgical cross-infection”. The Cochrane Library (3): CD003087. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD003087. PMID 12137673.
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Tanner, J; Parkinson, H (2006). “Double gloving to reduce surgical cross-infection”. The Cochrane Library (3): CD003087. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD003087.pub2