Question

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

Answer 1

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,