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Re: Strip: Gloves
By:StephenHJ
Date: 12/12/2011, 3:37 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Gloves (Bill Hamm)

: Btw, virtually every hospital now uses nitrile gloves where they
: used to use latex, for the same reason, they keep more bad stuff
: away from you.

: Bill H.

Hospitals actually moved to nitrile to avoid the latex allergies that affected a relatively high percentage of patients. (I don't know the actual numbers, but in the statistical sense, more than 1 out of 100 patients is too many for a hospital).

Latex are actually superior for chemical resistance in most cases, but nitrile is a very close second, and better in a few cases.

StephenHJ

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Strip: Gloves
Randy Echtinaw -- 12/12/2011, 11:08 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 12/12/2011, 11:34 am
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Ian Cummins -- 12/12/2011, 12:13 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/12/2011, 3:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/12/2011, 3:12 pm
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StephenHJ -- 12/12/2011, 3:37 pm
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John Messinger -- 12/12/2011, 12:34 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/12/2011, 2:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/13/2011, 4:43 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/12/2011, 1:12 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 12/12/2011, 5:49 pm
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Will N 2 Go -- 12/13/2011, 9:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/14/2011, 2:31 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/14/2011, 9:55 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2011, 2:53 am
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les cheeseman -- 12/15/2011, 9:54 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2011, 2:50 am