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2. Medical glove - Wikipedia

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   Medical gloves are disposable ... the first modern disposable glove was invented by ... With the availability of non-powdered medical gloves that were easy to don ...

3. Rubber glove - Wikipedia

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   In 1894, William Stewart Halsted, the first chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, invented rubber gloves for his wife Caroline Hampton as he noticed her hands were affected by the daily surgeries she had performed and to prevent medical staff from developing dermatitis from surgical chemicals.

4. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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   The gloves were intended to prevent medical staff from developing dermatitis from surgical chemicals. [ 447 ] [ 448 ] [ 449 ] The first modern disposable glove was created by Ansell Rubber Co. Pty. Ltd. in 1965.

5. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) - Wikipedia

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   1894 Medical glove. A disposal surgical glove. ... Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1903. The first tea bags were made from silk. Sullivan was a tea ...

6. Glove - Wikipedia

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   A glove is a garment covering the hand, with separate sheaths or openings for each finger including the thumb. [1] Gloves protect and comfort hands against cold or heat, damage by friction, abrasion or chemicals, and disease; or in turn to provide a guard for what a bare hand should not touch.

7. History of general anesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Volwiler and Tabern were awarded U.S. Patent No. 2,153,729 in 1939 for the discovery of thiopental, and they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1939, the search for a synthetic substitute for atropine culminated serendipitously in the discovery of meperidine, the first opiate with a structure altogether different ...

8. Compression garment - Wikipedia

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   In medical contexts, compression garments provide support for people who have to stand for long periods or have poor circulation. These come in varying degrees of compression, and higher degree compression sleeves, such as sleeves that provide compression of 20–30 mmHg or higher, typically require a doctor's prescription. [ 1 ]

9. Universal precautions - Wikipedia

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   Universal precautions are an infection control practice. Under universal precautions all patients were considered to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens. The guideline recommended wearing gloves when collecting or handling blood and body fluids contaminated with blood, wearing face shields when there was danger of blood splashing on mucous membranes ,and disposing of all needles and ...