AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

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In a message dated 10/2/2007 8:49:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
prasannasimha at gmail.com writes:

Well it  was not so long ago as we used to do that as students  when we 
were  doing CMV's or when we used to palpate for TR's. That decreased 
after HIV  came into the forefront.
Prasanna
Jbflegejr at aol.com wrote:
> Bob,  I remember certain senior surgeons who cut away the glove covering 
the  
> finger they were inserting into the left atrium for closed mitral  
valvotomy 
> arguing that they needed the tactile sensing possible only  with the bare 
finger. 
> I have seen urologists doing the same thing for  suprapubic prostatectomy. 
John 
> Flege



There was a surgeon Thompson in Rhodesia, as it was called then, who grew  
the nail on his forefinger and sharpened it so that if the commissural fusion  
did not split he would cut it. He did dip his finger in iodine before putting 
it  through the appendage. 
Bob



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