↑ “Medical Gloves and Gowns”. FDA. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 3 năm 2010. Medical gloves are disposable gloves used during medical procedures. Medical gloves help prevent contamination between caregivers and patients. Some are designed to prevent contact with certain chemotherapy drugs. Medical gloves include examination gloves, surgical gloves, and medical gloves for handling chemotherapy agents (chemotherapy gloves). These gloves are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA makes sure that manufacturers of these devices meet performance criteria such as leak resistance, tear resistance, etc.
↑ “Hopkins Ceases Use Of Latex Gloves During Surgery”. WJZ-TV. 15 tháng 1 năm 2008. Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 11 tháng 10 năm 2008. Truy cập ngày 3 tháng 3 năm 2010. A surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital is credited with being the first to introduce the rubber surgical glove back in 1894.
↑ “Rubber Gloves”. Johns Hopkins Hospital. 14 tháng 1 năm 2008. Truy cập ngày 3 tháng 3 năm 2010. William Stewart Halsted, The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s first surgeon in chief, is credited as the first to develop and introduce rubber surgical gloves in the United States. That was in 1894, five years after the institution opened.
↑ “100 Years of Australian Innovation - latex gloves”. Truy cập ngày 7 tháng 3 năm 2010. In 1945, Ansell designed and built the first automatic dipping machine, which produced 300 dozen pairs of synthetic gloves in eight hours. Ansell introduced disposable surgical gloves in 1964, which won the company an Export Award in 1967. International expansion over the next two decades saw Ansell become the world's largest producer of latex gloves for household and medical use.
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