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A pair of exam gloves may cost only 10 cents, but ECRI estimates that U.S. healthcare providers spend more than a half billion dollars on exam gloves each year. In this episode, Julie Miller, a Principal Project Engineer at ECRI, describes how she tests exam gloves in real-world conditions to make sure they stretch, bend, and come on and off readily to protect wearers from infectious diseases.
By ECRIA pair of exam gloves may cost only 10 cents, but ECRI estimates that U.S. healthcare providers spend more than a half billion dollars on exam gloves each year. In this episode, Julie Miller, a Principal Project Engineer at ECRI, describes how she tests exam gloves in real-world conditions to make sure they stretch, bend, and come on and off readily to protect wearers from infectious diseases.