O'Donnell Victoria Rodrigues, Chinelatto Lucas Albuquerque, Rodrigues Cristina, Hojaij Flavio Carneiro
- Fashion and Textile Museum, N/A - London - London District - Reino Unido.
- University of São Paulo, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery - São Paulo - SP - Brazil.
Rev Col Bras Cir. 2020 Jun 8;47:e20202597. doi: 10.1590/0100-6991e-20202597. eCollection 2020.
Medical Uniforms date back from medieval times. Nursing uniforms were based on nuns clothes whereas doctors used the famous "plague costumes" and black "frock" coats from about 15th to early 19th century. In latter half 19th century medical uniforms started to change. Nursing uniforms gradually lost their similarities to religious outfits. Doctors started to use white clothing. With great emphasis on hygiene and sanitation, the idea of personal protective equipment (PPE) started to evolve with William Stewart Halsted introducing the use of rubber gloves in 1889. In the 1960s-1970s it became more usual to wear green and blue `scrubs in order to look for a greater contrast in clothing with the all-white hospital environment. In contemporary times, some specialties even stopped using specific uniforms, while others still use them. At the same time, PPE became more and more important, up to nowadays "plague costume" in the combat of the COVID-19 epidemics.
医用制服可追溯到中世纪。护士制服是以修女服装为基础的，而医生则穿着著名的“瘟疫防护服”以及大约从15世纪到19世纪早期的黑色“礼服”外套。在19世纪后半叶，医用制服开始发生变化。护士制服逐渐失去了与宗教服装的相似之处。医生开始穿着白色服装。随着对卫生和清洁的高度重视，个人防护装备（PPE）的概念开始演变，1889年威廉·斯图尔特·霍尔斯特德引入了橡胶手套的使用。在20世纪60年代至70年代，为了在全白色的医院环境中获得更大的服装对比度，穿着绿色和蓝色“手术服”变得更加普遍。在当代，一些专科甚至不再使用特定的制服，而其他专科仍然使用。与此同时，个人防护装备变得越来越重要，直至如今在抗击新冠疫情中使用的“瘟疫防护服”。
