8/11/2023 0 Comments Surgical asepsis sterile technique![]() ![]() Extreme caution and careful practices must be adhered, in order for any CS to keep the sterile items with the sterile items and so forth. Because sterility is impossible to see with our human eye, one cannot look at a specific item and determine its sterility, that is why we use the indicators and tools in CS to help us identify when an items has been exposed to a sterilization process. Sterility can be defined as the absence of all microbes. ![]() ![]() Whether you are cleaning your work surfaces in decontamination or cleaning the instruments you prepare, all of these are considered to be “clean” in the aspect of aseptic practice. If that item has been cleaned with a detergent, disinfectant or thermal decontamination process, it is considered clean and decontaminated. Any item that has been properly cleaned via manual or mechanical means is considered clean. While mechanical cleaning removes soil and most microorganisms it does not deem an item sterile. Surgical asepsis is when items are sterilized, while clean is simply clean. There is clean asepsis and surgical asepsis, which dictate if items are free from all microbes or simply minimizing the amount. Examples of contaminated items include opened instrument sets, surgical instrument trays and devices, single use medical devices like scalpel blades, disposable medical devices like hypo needles, positioning equipment, IV pumps, anesthesia blades and even suction pumps.Ĭleanliness is the basis of aseptic technique. This is why our role in CS is so important in following standard precautions. Because microbial contamination cannot be seen with the naked eye, however, it can be present even when it is not seen. ![]() For medical device preparers the terms DIRTY and CONTAMINATED are one in the same. An item is considered to be either contaminated or not contaminated depending on what it has been used on, touched or opened in the environment of direct patient care. Items that have been used for patient care are considered contaminated.
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