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oAseptic technique
oPathogens
Aseptic technique
from infection.
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• Performing dialysis
• Inserting catheters.
• Running IVs.
• Performing surgeries.
• Dressing wounds.
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To make sure an area is free from germs aseptic technique uses four strategies
(elements) to keep things clean:
1.Barriers
2.Contact guidelines
4.Environmental controls
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Barriers :
• sterile object that prevents any germs on the HCW from getting on
the patient.
Contact guidelines:
floor is non-sterile.
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Three main types of aseptic technique that medical professionals use, depending on
the situation.
• It uses everything that sterile technique uses except for the sterile
operating suite.
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• Respiratory Hygiene
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doesn’t involve breaking the skin and puts you at much less risk of
infection than invasive procedures
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• Gloves must be clean but not necessarily sterile and the difference
Nosocomial infection
• Iv site
• Urinary catheter
Source of infectious
Exogenous
Endogenous
fatal complication.
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