reach first to your station for a swab, then
back to the patient. Then you go back to
your station for a syringe, reach for the vial
in one of your drawers, fill the syringe and
then back to the patient to inject them with
the anesthetic. Every time one of your anes-
thesia providers make one of those pre-
injection steps, every time you touch a
drawer on your hard-to-clean workstation
for a vial or a syringe or a swab, you're
increasing the risk of contamination.
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Still rinsing
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Skull cap or bouf-
fant? Whichever you
prefer, says the 2019
AORN Guideline for
Surgical Attire, noting
that multiple studies
show no significant
difference in SSI
rates for skullcaps
compared to bouffant
caps. "No recom-
mendation can be
made for the type of
head or beard covers worn in the semi-
BOUFFANT VS. SKULL CAP
No Relationship Between
Type of Headgear and SSI Rates
• BOUFFANT OR SKULLCAP?
Contrary to popular belief, AORN
never banned the traditional surgeon
skull cap and mandated the use of a
bouffant cap.
Justin
Hollander,
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