Question

CRITICAL THINKING Provide the rationale in your own words) for each of these rules of asepsis that apply to draping. Think about contamination of the prep site, contamination of the persons draping, and contamination of the drapes during draping. This exercise requires you to integrate what you learned about aseptic technique with draping principles and practice. 1. Handle drapes with as little movement as possible. 2. When placing a drape, do not touch the patient's skin or any other nonsterile surface. 3. After a drape is placed, do not shift it or move it 4. Areas of the drape that fall below the level of the operating table are considered con- taminated.

Answer 1

de Ros as Hari II ) 5 adeth seal Do not write your name in any part of your awwerbock. For writing as answer including Heading use Black Blue Ink Only. Handle drapes with as little movement as possible & Yes, we have to do little movement while handling drepes because in moving lere are chances of touching the drapes to unsterile or contaminated Places which leads to breaking the sterility of drapes and drapes becomes more Contaminated the (hhen placing Patient's skin surface a drupe or any do not touch other nonstestle Because it we touch nonstearle field it will contaminate the doupe and Sterility of doupe is not maintain. so. do not touch skin or any other monsterile to star surface which is not stesele is placed, do not shift it After a drape Tor move it once a drape is placed that field las considered as sterile and other field or chea PS monsterile or contaminated so, if we are shifting or moving the drape means we are moving sterile area Ho unsterile ared. And this will cause contamination mith microbes, so do not shift or move doape once it B Placed on patient

(4) Areas of the I level of the contaminated drape opening that teuble fall below the care conul dered = yes Beause that table area are not sterile, so at tie drupe touches that level it B considered as contaminated and it B removed and replaced by new sterile drape