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    Principles of Sterile Technique

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    The document outlines principles of sterile technique for operating rooms: 1. All items used during surgery must be sterilized beforehand. Sterile individuals only touch sterile items, while non-sterile people only touch unsterile items. 2. Sterile individuals avoid leaning over unsterile areas, and non-sterile people stay more than 12 inches from sterile fields. Anything that may not be sterile should be considered unsterile. 3. Gowns are only considered sterile from the waist up in front and sleeves to 2 inches above the elbow. Sterile individuals keep their hands in sight and away from their face.

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    The document outlines principles of sterile technique for operating rooms: 1. All items used during surgery must be sterilized beforehand. Sterile individuals only touch sterile items, while non-sterile people only touch unsterile items. 2. Sterile individuals avoid leaning over unsterile areas, and non-sterile people stay more than 12 inches from sterile fields. Anything that may not be sterile should be considered unsterile. 3. Gowns are only considered sterile from the waist up in front and sleeves to 2 inches above the elbow. Sterile individuals keep their hands in sight and away from their face.

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    The document outlines principles of sterile technique for operating rooms: 1. All items used during surgery must be sterilized beforehand. Sterile individuals only touch sterile items, while non-sterile people only touch unsterile items. 2. Sterile individuals avoid leaning over unsterile areas, and non-sterile people stay more than 12 inches from sterile fields. Anything that may not be sterile should be considered unsterile. 3. Gowns are only considered sterile from the waist up in front and sleeves to 2 inches above the elbow. Sterile individuals keep their hands in sight and away from their face.

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    Principles of Sterile Technique

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    The document outlines principles of sterile technique for operating rooms: 1. All items used during surgery must be sterilized beforehand. Sterile individuals only touch sterile items, while non-sterile people only touch unsterile items. 2. Sterile individuals avoid leaning over unsterile areas, and non-sterile people stay more than 12 inches from sterile fields. Anything that may not be sterile should be considered unsterile. 3. Gowns are only considered sterile from the waist up in front and sleeves to 2 inches above the elbow. Sterile individuals keep their hands in sight and away from their face.

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    Principles of Sterile Technique

    1. All articles used in an operation have been sterilized previously.

    2. Persons who are sterile touch only sterile articles; persons who are not
    sterile touchonly unsterile articles.

    3. Sterile persons avoid leaning over an unsterile area; non-sterile persons


    avoid reaching over a sterile field. Unsterile persons do not get closer than
    12 inches from a sterile field.

    4. If in doubt about the sterility of anything consider it not sterile. If a non-


    sterile person brushes close consider yourself contaminated.

    5. Gowns are considered sterile only from the waist to shoulder level in front
    and the sleeves to 2 inches above the elbows.

    1. Keep hands in sight or above waist level away from the face.

    2. Arms should never be folded.

    3. Articles dropped below waist level are discarded.

    6. Sterile persons keep well within the sterile area and follow those rules
    from passing:

    1. Face to face or back to back.

    2. Turn back to a non-sterile person or when passing.

    3. Face a sterile area when passing the area.

    4. Ask a non-sterile person to step aside rather than trying to crowd


    past him.

    5. Step back away from the sterile field to sneeze or cough.

    6. Turn head away from sterile field to have perspiration mopped


    from brow.
    7. Stand back at a safe distance from the operating table when
    draping the patient.

    8. Members of the sterile team remain in the operating room if


    waiting for the case.

    9. Do not wander around the room or go out in the corridors.

    7. Sterile persons keep contact with sterile areas to a minimum.

    1. Do not lean on the sterile tables or on the draped patient.

    2. Do not lean on the nurse’s mayo tray.

    8. Non-sterile persons — when you are observing a case, please stay in the
    room until the case is completed. Do not wander from room to room as
    traffic in the operating room should be kept as a minimum. Patient privacy
    needs to be respected.

    9. Keep non-essential conversation to a minimum.

    10.The circulating nurse is in charge of the room — if you have any


    questions, please refer them to her, the supervisor or your instructor. Ask
    circulating nurse when it is an appropriate time to ask questions so that
    explanations/rationale can be given.

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