aspect of the invention the sensor s can be attached to the tip of the sleeve adjacent to the end of the finger of the glove the sleeve advantageously keeps the sensor s from rotating or shifting relative to the finger in another aspect a fiber optic cable can be used to couple the sensor s to the glove 39 s transmitter both the sensor and the transmitter can be energized with a local battery it will also be understood that each finger of a glove could be equipped with a different sensor coupled by a cable to the transmitter in yet another embodiment multiple sensors can be associated with a selected glove finger and associated user 39 s finger fig1 illustrates an apparatus 10 which includes a protective glove 12 with a ring finger 12 1 an elastic rubber sleeve 14 is positioned in the ring finger 12 1 an oximeter sensor 16 or any other type of physiological sensor examples noted above can be attached to an end region of sleeve 14 and also positioned in ring finger 12 1 an electrical or a fiber optic cable 18 having one strand or multiple communication strands can couple output electrical signals from sensor 16 to a local glove carried transmitter 22 transmitter 22 can be in wireless communication with a displaced monitoring unit 30 a plurality of sensors such as 16 a 16 b can be carried by respective glove fingers such as 12 2 12 3 and coupled to the transmitter 22 by one strand or element of the cable 18 if desired multiple sensors such as 16 16 a can be carried in a single glove finger such as.