SCRUBBING UP
ALL taking part in the surgical procedure and the OT .team must scrub.
The scrub rooms are situated before the entrance to the O.T.
Adjust the elbow tap levers to deliver water without splashing fig 1.1.In most tropical countries only a cold water tap is necessary.
- Wet your hands, apply a little soap or detergent, and work up a good FOAM.
- Scrub your hands and forearms to 5 cm above your elbows for one complete MINUTE.
- Wash your forearms.
- Then take a sterile brush and put soap on it. fig 2.1
- Scrub the lateral side of your left thumb, then its medial side, then the lateral and medial aspects of each successive finger. fig 2.3
- Scrub your nails, and then the back and front of your left hand.
- Follow same routine with your right hand. Scrub for 5 minutes in all.
Some surgeons only scrub their nails, and then thoroughly wash and rinse their hands and arms upto their elbows a number of times for 5 minutes.
Rinse the suds from your hands while holding them higher than your elbows. fig 2.4
- Turn off the taps with your elbows. fig 2.5
Dry your hands with a sterile towel before you put on a sterile gown.
- Dry your hands first, then your forearms.
- Grasp 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 (unsterile) part of the towel back to a dry area of your arms and hands
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