What is Medical Asepsis?
Medical asepsis is also called as clean technique. It is used primary for prevention of the hospital infection.
Medical asepsis is defined a series of process, steps and procedures is designed to prevent the growth and spread of microorganism in hospitals.
Surgical asepsis is all about killing all the microorganism from surface or over a cloth. Medical asepsis is more different as it is more focus on maitaining cleanliness so as to prevent the contamination and prevent spread of disease.
Principles of Medical Asepsis
Medical asepsis blocks every step of the chain of infection. There are some methods used to prevent medical asepsis are given below,
Hand washing
Hand washing is primary method which helps to prevent 99 percent of crossinfection. WHO recommend 7 step process for handwashing. It includes a complete hand wash with steps, with minimum of 20 seconds with alcohol based hand rubs. It is done before and after touching of the patients.
Use of personal protective equipment
Most of health care workers uses PPE kit to protect themselves from getting infection. PPE kit includes the gloves, gown, mask and eye protection eye wear. This all prevents the crossinfection from patient to nurses and vice versa.
Environmental cleaning
It means the cleaning of the hospital enviornment like bed rails, stethoscope, keyboards, clean floor, bed etc. This became infected when infected patient comes in contact with them. So, it is essential to clean those from time to time with strong disinfectants.
Properly handling of the Linen
Linen is the cloths patient wear or mattraces they should be handled properly. Whenever a nurse or health worker collect the linen, it should be placed directly into waste, without scattering them. Scattering linen lead to spread of infection from bedsheet into the environment.
Properly dispose the Biomedical Waste Management
Biomedical waste management is a technique use to dispose the waste generated properly with aseptic technique. Like cotton swab, pad, blood stained cotton, medicine vials etc all should be waste according to aseptic technique.
Why Medical asepsis is important in Hospitals?
Every day millions of bacteria spread from one person to another and from one area to another. Eliminating all the bacteria is impossible. Medical asepsis is a technique that proves to be effective to kill most of bacterias present around the patient. It also prevent the spread of infection each other. It make sure that the hospital environment is safe for the patient, relatives and hospital health worker.
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