What Are The Differences Between Disposable Isolation Gowns, Protective Gowns And Surgical Gowns?

Disposable isolation gowns, disposable protective clothing, and disposable surgical gowns are all personal protective equipment commonly used in hospitals. But in the process of clinical supervision, we often find that medical staff are a little confused about these three. After searching for information, the editor will discuss the similarities and differences between the three from the following aspects.

1. Function

Disposable Isolation Gowns: protective equipment used for medical staff to avoid contamination by blood, body fluids, and other infectious substances, or to protect patients from infection. Isolation gowns not only prevent infection or contamination of medical staff but also prevent infection of patients, it is two-way isolation.

Isolation Gown

Disposable Protective Coverall: disposable protective equipment worn by clinical medical staff when they come into contact with patients with Class A or infectious diseases managed under Class A infectious diseases. Protective clothing is to prevent infection of medical staff and is a single item of isolation.

Disposable Surgical Gown: The surgical gown plays a two-way protective role during the operation. First, the surgical gown establishes a barrier between the patient and the medical staff, which reduces the probability of the medical staff coming into contact with the patient’s blood or other body fluids and other potential sources of infection during the operation; second, the surgical the gown can block colonization/adhesion to the medical staff’s skin or clothing Various bacteria on the surface spread to surgical patients, effectively avoiding cross-infection of multi-drug resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE). Therefore, the barrier function of surgical gowns is regarded as the key to reducing the risk of infection during surgery.

2. Dressing indication

Disposable isolation gown: 1. When contacting patients with infectious diseases spread by contact, such as patients infected by multidrug-resistant bacteria. 2. When patients are subject to protective isolation, such as diagnosis, treatment and nursing of patients with extensive burns and bone marrow transplantation. 3. It may be splashed by the patient's blood, body fluids, secretions and excrement. 4. To enter key departments such as ICU, NICU, and protective wards, whether to wear isolation gowns or not should be determined according to the purpose of entering and the contact status of the medical staff.

Disposable protective clothing: 1. When in contact with patients who are in Class A or are managed by Class A infectious diseases. 2. When contacting patients with suspected or confirmed SARS, Ebola, MERS, H7N9 avian influenza, etc., the latest infection control guidelines should be followed.

Disposable surgical gown: It is strictly sterilized and used for invasive treatment of patients in a specialized operating room.

3. Appearance and material requirements

Disposable isolation clothing: Disposable isolation clothing is usually made of non-woven materials, or combined with materials with better permeability resistance, such as plastic film. Through the use of various non-woven fibre joining technologies instead of the geometric interlocking of woven and knitted materials, it has integrity and toughness. Isolation gowns should be able to cover the trunk and all clothing to form a physical barrier for the spread of microorganisms and other substances. It should have impermeability, abrasion resistance and tear resistance [2]. At present, there is no special standard in China. There is only a brief introduction on the putting on and taking off of the isolation gown in the "Isolation Technical Specifications" (the isolation gown should be opened at the back to cover all clothes and exposed skin), but there is no specification and material, etc. Related indicators. Isolation gowns can be reusable or disposable, without a cap. Judging from the definition of isolation gown in the "Technical Specification for Isolation in Hospitals", there is no requirement for anti-permeability, and isolation gowns can be waterproof or not.

Disposable protective clothing: GB 19082-2009 clearly states that protective clothing consists of hooded tops and pants. It can be divided into a two-piece structure and two-piece structure [3]. The trouser legs and cuffs are tightened, and the protection level of protective clothing is higher than that of isolation clothing. Generally recommended using disposable.

The standard clearly states that protective clothing must have liquid barrier functions (impermeability, moisture permeability, synthetic blood penetration resistance, surface moisture resistance), flame retardant properties and antistatic properties, and have resistance to breaking strength, elongation at break, filtration There are requirements for efficiency.

Disposable surgical gowns: In 2005, China issued a series of standards related to surgical gowns (YY/T0506). This standard is similar to the European standard EN13795. The standards have clear requirements for the barrier properties, strength, microbial penetration, and comfort of surgical gown materials. [1]. The surgical gown should be impermeable, sterile, one-piece, without a cap. Generally, the cuffs of surgical gowns are elastic, which is easy to wear and is helpful to wear sterile hand gloves. It is not only used to protect medical staff from contamination by infectious substances, but also to protect the sterile state of the exposed parts of the operation.

In summary, protective clothing is well distinguished from isolation gowns and surgical gowns. Surgical gowns and isolation gowns are not easy to distinguish. They can be distinguished according to the length of the waistband (the waistband of the isolation gown should be tied to the front for easy removal. The waistband of the surgical gown is tied at the back).