How to Remove Surgical Gloves

Learning to properly remove surgical gloves is essential for the safety of any medical professional. Those using surgical gloves to protect their hands while performing non-medical tasks, such as automotive work, need to understand how to properly remove these types of gloves as well in order to protect their skin from dangerous or irritating chemicals. Once the correct method is learned, many people will find that the safe removing and disposing of surgical gloves quickly becomes second nature.

Things You'll Need

• Basin of decontamination liquid
• Receptacle for disposal

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Instructions

• 1

  Rinse your gloved hands in the container of decontamination liquid. This will remove such contaminants as blood and other bodily fluids from your gloves.

• 2

  Grasp the cuff of one of the gloves with the opposite hand. While holding the cuff of the glove, pull the glove partly off. Make sure that the fingers of the hand in the partly-removed glove are still inside the glove.

• 3

  Grasp the cuff of the other glove with the now partly-gloved hand. Pull this glove partly off, until only the fingers are covered. Only the fingers of both hands will now be gloved.

• 4

  Carefully grab the inside-out portion of the gloves, using the opposite hand to grab each glove. Slowly, pull both gloves off at the same time. Be careful to only touch the inside surfaces of the gloves with your bare skin. Do not touch the outside of the gloves, as this surface may still be contaminated.

• 5

  Dispose of the gloves in a receptacle designed for such waste. Immediately, wash your hands thoroughly, since any unseen holes or tears in the gloves could have exposed your hands to contaminants.