Disinfection, sterilization, and antisepsis: An overview.
Antisepsis
Disinfection
Sterilization
Journal
American journal of infection control
ISSN: 1527-3296
Titre abrégé: Am J Infect Control
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8004854
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2019
06 2019
Historique:
entrez:
1
6
2019
pubmed:
31
5
2019
medline:
29
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
All invasive procedures involve contact by a medical device or surgical instrument with a patient's sterile tissue or mucous membranes. The level of disinfection or sterilization is dependent on the intended use of the object. Critical (items that contact sterile tissue, such as surgical instruments), semicritical (items that contact mucous membranes, such as endoscopes), and noncritical (devices that contact only intact skin, such as stethoscopes) items require sterilization, high-level disinfection, and low-level disinfection, respectively. Cleaning must always precede high-level disinfection and sterilization. Antiseptics are essential to infection prevention as part of a hand hygiene program, as well as other uses, such as surgical hand antisepsis and preoperative skin preparation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31146848
pii: S0196-6553(19)30059-8
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.01.018
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
A3-A9Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.