The Color Purple In our Simple Trauma classes one of the things that we discuss is the use of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), more specifically, gloves. During the discussion we talk about using nitrile gloves instead of latex due to patient allergy concerns. Another thing that we talk about is the color of the gloves …

Over the past few years we have seen an ever-increasing push for people to obtain medical training. Across the social media spectrum, and on numerous internet forums, we have seen an often-cited refrain of “but what about medical?” when people are showing off their favorite blaster and zombie apocalypse deployment kit. As a result, a …