It is deemed medically important to use sterile or surgical gloves during invasive procedures and surgeries that come into contact with sterile bodily components. Among the applications are:
> Inserting and caring for catheters.
> Placing arterial or central venous lines and providing related care.
> Replacing surgical wound dressings with sterile ones.
> Protecting severely impaired immunocompromised people who, in normal conditions, wear non-sterile gloves.
> Dressing wounds on the skin or mucous membranes when contamination or infection is likely.
> Performing tracheotomies on patients who are recovering from a stoma, neonates, premature babies, and those who have recurrent respiratory infections.
> Delivering infants.
> Using surgical instruments.
> Delivering dialysis or managing dialysis catheters.
