Procedures in the Case of
Accidental Injury
Should the operator or assistant be accidentally
pricked, e.g. needle-stick injury, the site of entry should be immediately
encouraged to bleed, should be thoroughly washed with warm, soapy water, and a
sterile dressing applied. An entry should be made in the Accident or Infection
Book, with the date, circumstances, names of those present and the time and
name of the patient, nature of accident, and final outcome on follow up
entered later on. All this information will be of great help in case of
outbreak of infection in the hospital and preventing future outbreaks.
Sterilizing and Disinfecting
Instruments
Sterilization is the destruction of all living
organisms.
• An
item may only be sterile or nonsterile.
• It cannot
be nearly sterile.
• Disinfection,
on the other hand is the reduction of a population of pathogenic
microorganisms without achieving sterility.
• In
these cases not all bacterial spores are destroyed.
Antiseptics
are used in the skin to prevent infection. They are milder than disinfectants,
e.g. iodine, hydrogen peroxide and chlorpexadine.
There
are four methods of sterilizing or disinfecting instruments in general
practice:
1. Antiseptic
solutions.
2. Boiling.
3. Hot
air ovens.
4. Autoclave.Any questions be sent to drmmkapur@gmail.com
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