Differences between medical examination gloves and surgical gloves

Disposable gloves: the general designation of all gloves that can only be used once, including disposable latex gloves, Disposable Nitrile Gloves, disposable PVC gloves, disposable TPE gloves and disposable PE gloves. These gloves are relatively thin and are not suitable for use in heavy industry.

Medical examination gloves: in the hospital, in addition to gloves (sterile gloves) and labor protection gloves, other disposable gloves are basically medical examination gloves. General medical inspection gloves are suitable for the hospital in addition to aseptic and dust-free environment, such as nurse dressing, injection and other work.

Surgical gloves: surgical gloves. However, the gloves with the most strict requirements among all disposable gloves must be sterile gloves and gloves with independent packaging. These gloves are rarely touched and generally only used in the laboratory or some other special occasions.

From the above content, it can be seen that the need for medical examination gloves is definitely higher than that of surgical gloves, because the number of operations performed by the hospital is very little compared with that of medical examination. You can imagine that a nurse has to change gloves for a patient to change medicine once, gloves for a needle once, and simple physical examination for the patient once Gloves, every day there are busy things and endless medical gloves.

There are also different classifications in medical examination gloves. Basically, disposable latex gloves and disposable nitrile gloves can be classified into one category, disposable PVC gloves and disposable TPE gloves can be classified into one category. Latex gloves and nitrile gloves are mainly used in biased operation, while PVC gloves and TPE gloves are suitable for some work with low requirements for operation.