In tracheostomy care, medical asepsis is performed although you use sterile equipment.
- Ed Robert Arnad
the difference between surgical and medical asepsis is that .....................???
Medical asepsis - uses clean technique Surgical asepsis - utilizes sterile technique
Obtaining a pap smear uses medical asepsis. There is no break in skin when getting a pap smear.
medical asepsis and surgical asepsis. medical asepsis is the use of practices like hand washing, disinfecting contaminated surfaces and cleaning in general. you are not 100% sterile. skin cannot be sterilized or disinfected. this technique will clean microorganisms but not its spores. surgical asepsis is when all microbial life are destroyed...including spores. the purpose of surgical asepsis is to keep organisms from entering the body during an invasive procedure. therefore, all equipment used is sterilized. (100% sterile).
Medical asepsis, or clean technique, includes procedures used to reduce the number of organisms present, and prevent the transfer of organisms. Surgical asepsis, or sterile technique, prevents contamination of an open wound, serves to isolate the operative area from the unsterile environment, and maintains a sterile field for surgery. Potter and Perry. Fundamentals of Nursing. 7th edition. pgs 665 & 668.
Tracheotomy is the medical term meaning surgical incision into the trachea. A related term, tracheostomy, is surgical creation of an artificial opening into the trachea. The after product (the open wound) is called a stoma
Asepsis or Aseptic
Ignaz Semmelweis in the 19th century
The medical terminology combining form for the surgical creation of an artificial opening is "otomy." Examples include tracheotomy (creation of an opening in the windpipe) or colostomy (creation of an opening in the colon).
Joseph Lister is considered a pioneer of medical asepsis. He introduced antiseptic surgical techniques like the use of carbolic acid to sterilize tools and clean wounds, significantly reducing infection rates in surgeries. Ignaz Semmelweis also made significant contributions by advocating for hand washing with chlorinated lime solution to prevent the spread of infections in maternity wards.
cleaning a wound - under medical/surgical asepsis techniques with sanitization, disinfection, and/or sterilization. If open wound, it would then have to be debrideded so that new blood capilliaries are reach and new tissue would be allowed to form.
Sterilization or pasteurization in food