
Your sterile gloves' pack should never be folded to prevent crease and to prevent it from easily being torn and exposed. Destruction of integrity of microbial barriers result in contamination. When bacteria cannot be eliminated from a field they must be kept to an irreduceable minimum.ġ3. Your armpit is one site so never place your hands under it or near it.ġ2. Sweat is moisture and may cause contamination. Sterile persons keep contact with sterile area to a minimum.Īlthough sterile persons are sterile still refrain from touching the sterile equipments to prevent still any contamination. Non-sterile persons keep away from sterile area.ġ0. Sterile persons keep within the sterile area.ĩ. Before using the sterile content pour a little amount to clean the rim of its container.Ĩ.Never touch equipments on rims of bottles.Never touch the rim of bottles/containers of sterile content.The edge of anything that encloses sterile contents is not considered sterile. Shoulders to 1 inch before the elbow of sleevesħ.Sleeve that covers the Hands to 1 inch beyond the elbow of sleeves.Gowns are considered sterile only from the waist to shoulder level and the sleeves.

When opening your gown always remember to keep at least a meter away from the table because when your gown accidentally touches below the table surface level then your gown would become unsterile.Ħ. Unsterile persons, avoid reaching over sterile field while sterile persons avoid leaning over unsterile area.ĥ. If you needed to use HCL and you have seen it already has a different color, remember that hydrochloric acid should always be colorless so if you have seen it otherwise then you should doubt its sterility and consider it unsterile.Īnother example would be if an HCL bottle does not have an expiry date, then doubt its sterility and consider it unsterile.Ĥ. If in doubt about the sterility of anything consider it unsterile.Įx. Sterile persons touch only sterile articles while unsterile persons touch only unsterile articles.ģ.
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When preparing for the equipments that are to be used for an operation, always remember that the equipments are already sterilized and therefore are free from pathogen so never touch them with your bare hands.Ģ.

All articles used in an operation have been sterilized previously.

those with colds or infections) must report themselves unable to be in the operating room to protect the client from outside pathogens.

Operating room personnel must practice strict standard precautions (i.e.
