Surgical Sterilization Research Paper

How to Sterilize and Perform Intravenous Injection While acting as a medic in the apocalyptic environment that has been presented, the other medics and I will have to perform many various basic medical procedures upon the patients we receive. Seeing as the ability to properly perform these techniques is detrimental to the survival of the society, research is required to learn the safe an correct way to execute them. In this essay I will be synthesizing the information I have gathered from articles written by professionals in the medical field to discuss how to properly sterilize an area of the body in preparation for injections or incisions. Before any sterilization actually occurs on the skin, first the person performing the sterilization must thoroughly wash …show more content…
Once you have evaluated the cleanliness of the skin you will need put on surgical gloves. Surgical gloves are the optimal choice for protecting from transfer of infection and disease. According to an article from the Safe Care Campaign, “They minimize the transmission of microorganisms from the hands to the patient, and prevent exposure of the hands to the patient’s body fluids and tissues.” If surgical gloves are not readily available, you will need to wash your hands thoroughly and dry them completely. After you have done this, make sure there are no clothes or other objects obstructing the area of sterilization. There are two different methods of sterilization depending on the medium of sterilizer that you use. If iodine was the medium that was chosen, the procedure takes slightly longer than if alcohol was used. Referring back to the article from the Safe Care Campaign, it says to “apply perioperative antiseptic skin preparation in concentric, enlarging circles, moving from the incision towards the periphery,” meaning to start at the point you will be inserting the needle and to slowly move outwards in circles increasing in size each time you go around. Repeat this