COST CUTTING (CONT)

O.T. Envoirment(cont)
Asepsis



Some surgeons only scrub their nails, and then thoroughly soap
and wash down their hands and arms unto their elbows a number of
times for 5 minutes.
Always wash the foam from your hands while holding them higher
than your elbows so that the water drips down into the sink.

- Turn off the taps with your elbows
- Hold the folded towel with the fingers of both hands, then let
it drop open, so that you don't touch anything with the open
towel.
- Dry your hands on one corner, then dry your forearms.
- Try not to bring a wet(now unitarily) part of the towel back to
a dry area of your arms and hands.
3.3.3 GOWNING
- Hold the gown away from your body, high above the floor.
- Allow it to drop open and put your arms into the arm holes
while keeping your arms in front. The inside of the gown is
facing you
- Then flex your elbows and abduct your arms to allow the arms to
enter the gown fully.
- Wait for the nurse to help you.She will hold the inner sides
of the gown at each shoulder and pull them over your shoulders
and will tie the tapes of the gown at the back.
3.3.4 GLOVING
- Dust your hands with powder and rub them together to spread it.
- Be careful to touch only the inner surface of the gloves.
- Hold the inner aspect of the turned down cuff of a glove with
the fingers of one hand, and pull it on to your opposite hand

- Leave its cuff for the moment.
- Put the fingers of your already gloved hand under the outward
turned cuff of the other glove, and pull it on to your bare
hand
- Turn down the outward turned ends of both your gloves onto your
ends of your gown.
- It is a good routine to wash your gloved hands in sterile water
to remove any powder.
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