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What is the importance of proper skin prep, proper set-up of minor surgery, and sterile gloves for minor office surgery. Provide examples of the consequences of not properly preforming these tasks
Importance
-As Patient's skin cannot be sterilized, skin should be properly clean.
-Skin prep aids in preventing Surgical site infection, in a user friendly and cost effective manner
-It removes debris from, and cleansing, the skin, bringing the resident and transient microbes to an irreducible minimum, and hinders the growth of microbes during the surgical procedure.
- using alcohol based prep have broad spectrum anti microbial effect.
Consequences
1. Infection
2.pain
3.scar formation
4.sepsis
For example :
Few years back ,during one of the opd, one diabetic patient came with trauma to hand with a steel sheet, proper aseptic preparation done , after the suture was put, the patient just touched the wound site for intactness, , after 2 days there was purulent foul smelling discharge, then he was started on iv antibiotics with daily dressing, he was admitted in the hospital for a two weeks,