Tom Fogarty developed. These are highly nuanced, and no one except the surgeon should be deciding which one to use. On the other hand, there are - well, gloves. Sterile gloves cost us millions of dollars each year. On the other hand, gloves pose their own dilemmas.
Latex gloves are cheap and great.
Nonlatex gloves are neither, except that they protect the safety of patients and health care workers. So users have to get involved. I've worked at five different hospitals, and at Stanford I'm impressed with what I think is great sensitivity, flexibility and a great opportunity for physician participation. One issue that directly impacts training programs is the learning curve for new technologies. That certainly was a concern between about 1986 and 1996, when many attending physicians were learning minimally invasive surgery.