2.1.
All members of the surgical staff (Physician, First Assistant, Certified Scrub Technician, Circulating Nurse)
are responsible for monitoring the sterile field and surgical process to ensure sterility is maintained and initiating corrective action if contamination occurs.
What are the guidelines for preparing and maintaining a sterile field?
Do not sneeze, cough, laugh, or talk over the sterile field.
Maintain a safe space or margin of safety between sterile and non-sterile objects and areas
. Refrain from reaching over the sterile field. Keep operating room (OR) traffic to a minimum, and keep doors closed.
Which organization recommends the practices for maintaining a sterile field?
Recommended Practices for Sterile Technique have been approved by
the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Recommended Practices Advisory Board
. They were presented as proposed recommendations for comments by members and others. They are effective December 15, 2012.
How do you maintain a sterile field in the operating room?
All surgical team members wear scrub attire. In addition to scrub attire, scrubbed persons must
wear a sterile surgical gown, mask, and gloves within the sterile field
to establish bacterial barriers. These barriers protect the patient from the transmission of microorganisms from the surgical team.
How is a sterile are maintained?
How is a sterile area maintained? A sterile area is maintained
by having only sterile items touch other sterile items
. What are sterile fields? Sterile fields are areas that are set up for procedures are made sure to be free of microorganisms.
What are the 5 principles of aseptic technique?
These principles include the following:
(1) use only sterile items within a sterile field; (2) sterile (scrubbed) personnel are gowned and gloved
; (3) sterile personnel operate within a sterile field (sterile personnel touch only sterile items or areas, unsterile personnel touch only unsterile items or areas); (4) …
What are 4 common aseptic techniques?
According to The Joint Commission, there are four chief aspects of the aseptic technique:
barriers, patient equipment and preparation, environmental controls, and contact guidelines
. Each plays an important role in infection prevention during a medical procedure.
Why is a sterile field important?
Maintaining a sterile field is an
important component of infection prevention
. These set of practices that are performed before, during and after invasive procedures reduce the number of potentially infectious microbes and help to reduce the risk of post procedure infection.
What are the rules for working in and around a sterile field?
- Sterile fields are created using sterile drapes and wrappers.
- Never turn your back on or walk away from a sterile field.
- Avoid excessive talking, coughing, sneezing or reaching across a sterile field.
- Keep sterile objects above waist level.
How far should you stay away from a sterile field?
This square footage minimum is intended to accommodate the equipment and personnel necessary for one surgical field. For unsterile personnel, such as the circulator, to move around the sterile field without contaminating it, he or she should maintain a distance of
at least 12 inches
from the sterile field.
What breaks a sterile field?
Common breaks in sterile technique include
diffi- culties encountered with sterilization
, setting up and opening the sterile field, scrubbing and drying hands, gowning, gloving, positioning, prepping, draping, the OR environment, and surgical tech- nique.
What happens if you break sterile field?
A break in sterility can
result in infection and seriously harm the patient
. Each year 1.7 million patients acquire a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) and almost 100,000 of them die. At least one in five of these infections could have been prevented.
Why are sterile packages given a lot number?
Why are sterile packages given a lot number? The lot control number is
used to identify items that have been included in a sterilization load that may have yielded a positive biological or mechanical control test
.
What are the principles of sterile technique?
- Face to face or back to back.
- Turn back to a non-sterile person or when passing.
- Face a sterile area when passing the area.
- Ask a non-sterile person to step aside rather than trying to crowd past him.
- Step back away from the sterile field to sneeze or cough.
Why is sterile technique important give two reasons?
a technique for isolating pure cultures by spreading organisms on an agar plate. Why is sterile technique important? This technique is important because it
prevents contamination of your culture with organisms from the environment
and to prevent the culture from contaminating you or others.
What is the acceptable border between a sterile area and non sterile area?
Sterile objects must not be wet. Moisture will draw microorganisms into the sterile object. An acceptable border between a sterile area and a nonsterile area is
one inch
. The portion of the drape that hangs over the edge is considered nonsterile, no matter what the size.
