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Medical Examination Gloves vs. Surgical Gloves

While both medical examination gloves and surgical gloves are vital components of personal protective equipment (PPE) used in healthcare settings, each is designed with distinct characteristics to meet the specific requirements of their intended use. Choosing the appropriate type of glove for the procedure and level of risk is essential to ensuring the safety of both healthcare providers and patients.

Quality for both types of gloves is described in terms of their “Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)”, a statistical measure of the number of pinholes and other defects in a batch of gloves.

AQL is measured using air and water leak tests and serves as a direct indicator of a manufacturer’s process quality and aspects such as glove length, width and thickness.

The lower the AQL, the better the glove quality.

Acceptable Quality Level Per Glove Type

Glove Type

  • Examination
  • Surgical

AQL

  • 2.5 or less
  • 1.5 or less

Glove Type

AQL

Examination
2.5 or less
Surgical
1.5 or less

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ABOUT EXAM GLOVES

Designed for the task at hand
Risk Criteria Example Glove Type
Low
  • No blood contact.
  • No body fluid contact.
  • Intact skin.
  • Low level of glove stress.
  • Food handling.
  • Dispensed meds.
  • Patient transport.
  • Non-invasive physical exams.
  • Non-sterile vinyl exam gloves.
  • Non-sterile latex exam gloves.
Medium
  • Blood contact.
  • Body fluid contact.
  • Procedures that stress the glove.
  • Invasive procedures.
  • Incontinent care.
  • Wound care.
  • Rectal exams.
  • Ostomy care.
  • Staple removal.
  • IV insertions, injections.
  • Isolation precautions.
  • Non-sterile latex, nitrile or neoprene exam gloves.
High
  • High risk of infection of HIV, HBV, HCV.
  • Chemotherapy administration.
  • High risk of blood & bone fragments.
  • Handling chemotherapy agents.
  • Emergency Depts.
  • Non-sterile latex, neoprene or nitrile exam gloves.
  • FDA approved for handling chemotherapy drugs.

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