![]() It's either sterile/asepsis or it's clean. That's why I like my Microbiology text and Lewis MedSurg book - they don't make this distinction. ![]() ![]() So where do we draw the line? Is medical asepsis any procedure that requires you to be conscious of microbes? See what I mean? Asepsis tends to lose its meaning in practice. The major issue is as we study for NCLEX, Kaplan is calling a clean-catch an "aseptic technique." Same with placing an IV, even though neither technique even requires sterile gloves. But it sounds like you are saying washing hands qualifies us for "medical asepsis." Truly sterile environments - like the half dozen OR experiences I've done this year - are so vastly different from what we call "medical asepsis" that I would argue they need different names. I just want to add that washing your hands is a PART of being sterile but just because you wash your hands doesn't make your procedure sterile. This seems more a matter of semantics than anything else. Here is a link that might help you: Aseptic Technique (Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health). Rather, washing your hands reduces the likelihood of contamination from pathogens (the purpose of aseptic technique). What is the difference between aseptic and sterile. Medical or clean asepsis reduces the number of organisms and prevents their spread surgical or sterile asepsis includes procedures to eliminate micro-organisms from an area and is practiced by surgical technologists and nurses. For example, washing your hands is imperative to maintaining aseptic technique before a clean or sterile procedure, but washing your hands does not mean they are sterile. There are two types of asepsis medical and surgical. There is surgical asepsis (sterile) and medical asepsis (clean).You apply the principles of asepsis in every clinical setting. Asepsis is a broad term that has other more specific categories. Aseptic technique is used to reduce the chance of contamination from pathogens. For example, washing your hands is imperative to maintaining aseptic technique before a clean or sterile procedure, but washing your hands does not mean they are sterile. You apply the principles of asepsis in every clinical setting. There is surgical asepsis (sterile) and medical asepsis (clean). Aseptic technique is used to reduce the chance of contamination from pathogens.Īsepsis is a broad term that has other more specific categories. Does anyone have a source that says aseptic means clean? My Lewis text says they are the same and my Taber's dictionary says, " all instruments used are sterilized, physicians and nurses wear caps, shoe coverings, sterile gowns and gloves." Clean technique is what we use when changing a stoma pouch - nothing sterile about it.
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