The total score of compliance with the standard was only 13%. Results: A compliance with the standards for surgical scrub prerequisites (70%), scrub process (81.53%), time of scrub (27%) and overall compliance (75.95%) observed. Data was collected by observation of surgical team who were scrubbing in the Operation Theatre, Chitwan Medical College before proceeding to surgical procedures. Data collection instrument (a checklist) was developed based on national and international standards of surgical hand scrub. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional design was used. The objective of the study was to evaluate the compliance of surgical hand scrub among surgical team in Operation Theatre of Teaching Hospital, Chitwan. Conclusion: There was an improper surgical asepsis practices performed by OR surgical team, we recommend the importance of continuing education among OR staff to keep them updated with the new trends and developments in surgical asepsis.īackground: Surgical hand scrub is an important practice that forms the base in the prevention and control of surgical site infection. There was a contamination of OR floor and conditioning system in 55% of surgeries, there was a surgical site infection(SSI) after suturing among 40% of patients and there was a correlation between contamination of scrubbing taps and SSI post-preparation (P < 0.05). Sterile persons touch only sterile items at 55% of surgeries, 84.9% of them performed surgical scrubbing correctly. Results: only 55% of patients showered the day of surgery, there was no cleaning of light and scrubbing sinks at 60% and 75% of surgeries respectively. Swabs obtained from surgical site and from OR surfaces for bacteriological examination. Methods: The researchers utilized a three data collection forms to collect the needed data about practices of surgical asepsis.
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the surgical asepsis practices in the operating theatre of King Khalid Hospital, Najran. It's either sterile/asepsis or it's clean.ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Background: Surgical asepsis practices should maintained by the surgical team to prevent contamination of the open surgical wound. That's why I like my Microbiology text and Lewis MedSurg book - they don't make this distinction. So where do we draw the line? Is medical asepsis any procedure that requires you to be conscious of microbes? See what I mean? Asepsis tends to lose its meaning in practice. The major issue is as we study for NCLEX, Kaplan is calling a clean-catch an "aseptic technique." Same with placing an IV, even though neither technique even requires sterile gloves. But it sounds like you are saying washing hands qualifies us for "medical asepsis." Truly sterile environments - like the half dozen OR experiences I've done this year - are so vastly different from what we call "medical asepsis" that I would argue they need different names. I just want to add that washing your hands is a PART of being sterile but just because you wash your hands doesn't make your procedure sterile. This seems more a matter of semantics than anything else. Here is a link that might help you: Aseptic Technique (Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health). Rather, washing your hands reduces the likelihood of contamination from pathogens (the purpose of aseptic technique). For example, washing your hands is imperative to maintaining aseptic technique before a clean or sterile procedure, but washing your hands does not mean they are sterile.
There is surgical asepsis (sterile) and medical asepsis (clean).You apply the principles of asepsis in every clinical setting. Asepsis is a broad term that has other more specific categories.
Aseptic technique is used to reduce the chance of contamination from pathogens. You apply the principles of asepsis in every clinical setting. There is surgical asepsis (sterile) and medical asepsis (clean). Aseptic technique is used to reduce the chance of contamination from pathogens.Īsepsis is a broad term that has other more specific categories. Does anyone have a source that says aseptic means clean? My Lewis text says they are the same and my Taber's dictionary says, " all instruments used are sterilized, physicians and nurses wear caps, shoe coverings, sterile gowns and gloves." Clean technique is what we use when changing a stoma pouch - nothing sterile about it.
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