Author's response

While the use of a single finger cut from a glove should be discouraged as mentioned, it is highly unlikely that a surgeon would leave on a whole rubber glove and fail to remove it. Nevertheless, a simple way to avoid this is to use coloured gloves. (Either bright blue latex free or bright green gloves are widely available.) These would be an even bigger visual warning than commercially available finger tourniquets that a tourniquet had been inadvertently left on!