![]() This is especially true in the case of large wounds that require many dressings, including packing of the wound for heavy exudate. Clean technique is considered most appropriate for long-term and home care, and so is applicable most commonly as the most aseptic way of changing a dressing in community nursing practice. ![]() Wound dressings would be opened onto the sterile field in a sterile-to-sterile technique. Minimal transference is used in both cases, where gloves do not repeatedly go from the wound or patient, back to a sterile pack and then back again to the wound. ![]() The sterile-to-sterile policy means that only sterile gloves that are clean and new out of their packet can be used before touching any sterile surface. Clean technique would involve clean hands and clean-but not necessarily sterile-latex gloves. This means that sterile technique requirements, such as wearing clean sterile gloves before touching any sterile surface, for example, a dressing field, do not apply. The main difference between the two is that, unlike aseptic technique, clean technique does not require ‘sterile-to-sterile’ ( Rowley et al, 2010). ![]() The technique involves care delivery using methods that prevent the transmission of microorganisms, such as by meticulous handwashing maintaining a clean environment by preparing a clean field using personal protective equipment, such as clean gloves and sterile instruments and preventing direct contamination of materials and supplies. On the other hand, clean technique is a slightly less sterile technique, but the term still indicates free of dirt, marks or stains. The term ‘aseptic technique’ means free from pathogenic microorganisms and is the deliberate prevention of the transfer of organisms from one individual to another by keeping the microbial count to an irreducible minimum ( Rowley et al, 2010). ![]()
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