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Should surgical gloves be sterile?

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Surgical gloves should always be sterile. This is because if a surgical glove is not steril and a suurgeon goes to perform a surgery on you, a vast number of amount of organisms can enter your body through your incision causing an infection. For this reason, everything to do with surgery, including surgical gloves, should be sterile.

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