{"title":"Making the choice: can you go 'latex free'?","authors":"M Evangelisto","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health care facilities have many means available to minimize the risk of latex allergy for both patients and workers. A latex-allergy task force should oversee patient and employee safety. Materials and items that contain latex must be identified, and latex-free alternatives must be found.</p>","PeriodicalId":79468,"journal":{"name":"Today's surgical nurse","volume":"20 1","pages":"40-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Today's surgical nurse","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Health care facilities have many means available to minimize the risk of latex allergy for both patients and workers. A latex-allergy task force should oversee patient and employee safety. Materials and items that contain latex must be identified, and latex-free alternatives must be found.