Asepsis

Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing contaminants (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites) or, preventing contact with microorganisms. The term asepsis often refers to those practices used to promote or induce asepsis in an operative field in surgery or medicine to prevent infection. Ideally, a surgical field is “sterile” meaning it is free of all biological contaminants, not just those that can cause disease, putrefaction, or fermentation, but that is a situation that is difficult to attain, especially given the patient is often a source of infection agent. Therefore, there is no current method to safely eliminate all of the patients’ contaminants without causing significant tissue damage. However, elimination of…

I walk down a narrow hallway into the microbiology laboratory on my college campus. I am met outside of the door by the professor. He proceeds to set the guidelines for proper safety in the lab. The number one thing he says and repeats is the concept of asepsis or the absence of microorganisms. After I finally get the okay to walk through the door, ditching my things there as I continue into the lab. Sanitization of your hands and the lab bench are the priority, immediately followed by placing…

Aseptic technique, also referred to as medical asepsis, involves the procedures designed to prevent the contamination of pathogens. These procedures are not as strenuous as surgical asepsis, but nevertheless successful in protecting patients from pathogens. Asepsis technique procedures include hand hygiene, standard precautions, and environmental cleanliness (Traes, 2014, p. 617). Providing a clean patient environment can be achieved by not cluttering the room with unnecessary supplies,…

The decrease in CLABSI rates when utilizing a bundle of care guidelines that included hand hygiene, chlorhexadine gluconate skin asepsis, Biopatch® dressings at the CVC insertion site, and Curos® caps on all catheter hubs led to the development of new policies and procedures with CVC lines. The project was expanded to include the entire healthcare facility and the methods which staff utilized to care for CVC lines. The reduction in CLABSI’s improved the financial obligations of the facility in…

What did cancer look like in the mid 1800’s http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/002048-pdf.pdf In 1838 german pathologist Johannes Muller showed cancer is made up of cells rather than lymph. Muller showed that cancer cells developed from budding elements (blastema) between normal tissues Rudolph Virchow suggested that cells including cancer cells are derived from other cells. He bliebed that cancer spread like liquid in the 1860s german surgeon karl theirch showed that…

Although much advancement has been made in science and medicine since the time of the Crimean War, many of Florence Nightingale’s ideas continue to hold true today. Nightingale, also known as the founder of professional nursing, can be credited with introducing principles of asepsis and infection control while advocating for improved health conditions for British soldiers during the Crimean War (Cherry & Jacob, 2014). This paper will explore Nightingale’s theory on securing the health of houses,…

I think what happened to jay horrible and I wish that he never had to go through that pain. We need to be more cautious about which hospital we go to and make sure they are up to date on precautions and health regulations and make sure the doctors are exceptional in their work. But, even though we try our best we might still come down with MRSA/VRE sometimes we just can’t help it. Things happen and we can’t always fix it but we can do our best to fight it and try to contain it. There are many…

The operating theatre (OT) is a sterile organized environment which we would want to believe that is a safe environment and the patient is far from most forms of harm, the reality is that this is far from the truth. There is an endless list of errors that would likely occur in the operating theatre jeopardizing the safety of the patient and the surgical team. To control the source of operating room environmental contamination, it is important to realize that the primary source of contamination…

Biomedical Model of Health is focused on treatment and is the primary framework that shaped the evolution of health care policy for most of the 20th century. It is surprising the see many of the principles or instruments used in surgery remain largely unchanged since it’s advent in Ancient Roman times or in its reemergence as a treatment towards aliments from the Renaissance. As mentioned, surgical services remain largely unchanged through the ages; however, the surgical field is an ever…

care for our patients and their families when it matters most.” (Sunnybrook, 2017) Sunnybrook Health Science Centre is located in Toronto, Ontario and is currently the largest trauma centre in Canada; their core values are accountability, collaboration, engagement, excellence, and respect. Established in 1948 as a military hospital, Sunnybrook has flourished throughout the years into the successful establishment of the present day, specializing in the treatment of cancer, high-risk maternal and…