Sterilization & Procedures
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Change Out and Stretching Procedure
PROCEDURE FOR CHANGE-OUTS
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- Wash hands.
- Put on one glove.
- With ungloved hand, open drawer, remove clean field with gloved hand.
- Shake open clean field and place on tray plastic side down.
- On clean field, place jewelry, gauze pads, and any necessary tools, baggie (on far corner of field).
- Put on one glove.
- Open all necessary tools or jewelry.
- Dispense Technicare on back of gloved hand.
- Using new jewelry, well lubricate old jewelry and slide into place.
- Remove old jewelry and place on clean field.
- Add more Technicare to end of new jewelry and slide into place.
- Clean of excess Technicare, and put on/in any necessary balls or o-rings.
- Take off one glove and place on field.
- Open baggie with ungloved hand and place jewelry in with gloved hand.
- Put any necessary tools in bio tray with gloved hand.
- Wrap up field in glove and throw in bio trash.
- Sanitize hands
PROCEDURE FOR STRETCHING
- Wash hands.
- Put on one glove.
- Remove clean field from drawer with gloved hand, opening and closing drawer with non-gloved hand.
- Shake open clean field and place on tray, plastic side down.
- On clean field, place sterilized taper, jewelry (if not sterilized, clean with Technicare), gauze pads, and plastic baggie (Place on far corner of clean field) – open all drawers with non gloved hand.
- Also get out any tools you may need.
- Put on second glove.
- At this time, clean unsterilized jewelry with Technicare.
- Open all tools, taper, jewelry – or remove from StatIM cartridge.
- Dispense Technicare on back of glove or gauze pad.
- Use end of taper to place Technicare on jewelry in body, get nice and lubed before removing.
- Make sure taper and jewelry match up.
- After removal of jewelry, place on clean field and put more technicare on end of taper, slide into hole.
- Explain what you’re doing, and talk about breathing, on exhale push taper through hole but not all the way.
- Line up jewelry with end of taper, and use jewelry to push taper the rest of the way through the hole.
- Wipe off excess Technicare, put on balls, or o-rings, or put in captive balls.
- Take off one glove, place on field.
- Open baggie with ungloved hand.
- Place jewelry in baggie with gloved hand – hand to customer.
- Dispense all tools, and taper in bio tray.
- Wrap up field in glove and throw in bio trash.
- Sanitize hands.
- Explain care to customer.