Aseptic Technique Flashcards
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What does Aseptic technique do?
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Designed to prevent micro-organisms being introduced to susceptible sites from hands, surfaces and equipment during clinical procedures
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Aseptic technique: Identify and protect (Key parts and sites)
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Key part: Part of equipment that must remain sterile (e.g. forceps tips, scissors and dressing)
Key site: Area of patient (e.g. wound) that must be protected from micro-organisms
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Aseptic technique: Sequencing
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- Must be performed in a sequences that ensures no contamination of key parts or sites
- Ensure the order of tasks is efficient, logical and safe
- Any variation can lead to hospital acquired infection
- Prior to procedure: conduct pain assessment, explain procedure, gain verbal consent, review patients charts
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Aseptic technique: Environmental control
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- Nurse needs to ensure no nearby environmental risk factors (e.g. nearby bed making, nearby food)
- Reduce risk; clean and tidy patient surroundings and trolley and don’t use patients table or bed as patient trolley
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Standard aseptic technique
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- Uses general aseptic field, e.g. basic dressing pack
- Uses non sterile touch and non touch technique
- For relatively simple and short duration procedures
- Use in simple wound dressing sand in carrying out intravenous therapy
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Surgical aseptic technique
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- Uses a critical aseptic field and sterile gloves, full barrier precautions
- Use for technically difficult procedures and involve large key site and have long duration
- E.g. for urinary catheterization or complex or large dressings
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Maintenance of aseptic field
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- Protects key parts and sites from non sterile environment
- Open sterile pack on clean trolley, using fingertips, open sterile pack away from your body
- Use the yellow forceps to lay the items on the sterile field
- Key parts such as dressings and scissors are added to central area
- Need to check expiry date
