Tech in Surgery Prep / Unit 27 TSC 660 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Surgical Site Infection After Discharge
The idea
Surgical site infections often appear after the patient has gone home, within thirty days of surgery or within a year when an implant is involved.
In practice
Learn what happens, in order. First, microbes introduced at surgery multiply in the wound over days. Second, the signs appear: redness, swelling, warmth, pain, pus and fever. Third, the patient is treated with antibiotics and wound care, sometimes with a return to surgery. Fourth, the infection is recorded and reviewed by infection-prevention staff. Fifth, as unit two showed, the cause can rarely be traced to a single moment in the operating room.
Where people slip
The scrub person almost never sees the infections that sterile technique prevents, or the ones a lapse causes. That is why sterile technique is kept by rule, every time, rather than by results the scrub person can see.
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