Scrubbing, Gowning, & Gloving
Materials Needed
To practice open gloving, you will need a pack of sterile gloves from your swag bag. Please look at the image to the right for reference.
Enjoy practicing open gloving!
Open Gloving
In some circumstances a full surgical suite may not be available or required, especially if you are a large animal veterinarian that performs many procedures on the farm. For circumstances like this, open gloving is utilized. We also use open gloving in small animal medicine when we perform surgical procedures on exam tables that do not require complete sterility. Even though you are not in a completely sterile environment, to decrease risk of infection you still want to be using sterile gloves. Learn how to correctly put on gloves without a gown in the video below!
Repackaging your Gloves
As a veterinary student, it is very important to practice all of your skills over and over again. Because of this, learning how to repackage your surgical gloves is crucial. Learn how to repackage your surgical gloves in the video below!
Materials Needed
To perform a surgical scrub, you will need the surgical scrub brush from your swag bag. Please see the image to the right for reference. You will also need access to a sink and a hand towel or paper towel to dry your hands after scrubbing!
Enjoy practicing scrubbing!
Scrubbing
Did you know that the idea of surgical scrubbing is only around 150 years old? At one point in time the chances of infection and even death from a broken arm or a big wound were really high. Learn how to become surgery clean in the video below!
More Scrubbing
Now that you know the technique, watch Nicole perform a surgical scrub! Remember that you are always moving from cleanest to dirtiest, and this is why we start with our hands and move down to our arms!
To practice gowning and gloving you will need the following materials:
1. Sterile Gloves
2. Surgical Mask
3. Surgical Cap/Bouffant
4. Yellow Gown - this will act as your surgical gown
Please see the image to the right to see the required materials.
Enjoy practicing your surgical prep skills!
Gowning and Gloving
Aseptic technique, which is a technique to decrease the risk of infection, is actually a fairly new concept with it only becoming widespread in the mid 19th and early 20th century. Gowning and gloving is part of this technique, to help decrease the spread of pathogens. Gowns and gloves are put through an autoclave which sterilizes these objects with high temperatures and pressures. Learning how to properly gown and glove is important in all forms of medicine to decrease the rate of infection after surgeries. Learn how to properly gown and glove in the video below, so that you can be practice surgery ready! You can practice with your yellow isolation gown as your surgical gown!