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Archive >  Surgical Supplies 2004

What Is Your Best Advice for Buying Prepping Products?

Click here to view all Preps products featured in the 2004 Manager's Guide to Surgical Supplies

To view listings from other product categories, please click on any of the links to the right.

Going latex-free
For the most part, we try to buy latex-free prepping kits. Be sure to trial the gloves in these kits extensively, however. We've found that the latex-free gloves in the kits are generally less than adequate when compared to those that you buy when you're ordering just gloves.

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