SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

Surgical instrumentation is one of the important topics when discussing the field of surgery. As we know surgical instruments should be cleaned very carefully and we have many important parameters towards it. The success of surgery without the infection mostly depends on the technique through which we are sterilizing the equipment’s used for the surgery. Automated washer disinfectors are one of the important tools in cleaning the surgical instruments they work by both cleaning and disinfecting during the process cycle. It is also necessary that the surgical instruments are kept in the moisture condition after use to aid in the cleaning process. Pasteurization, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde, super-oxidized water is some of the options for cleaning the surgical instruments and each option was found to have its own merits and demerits. Sterilization is the method of getting rid of the microbes and maintaining the aseptic condition. But usually while cleaning the surgical instruments dry heat or autoclaving are the commonly preferred methods. All the surgical instruments sterilization technique comes under the pre-operative preparations where all the necessary condition for the surgery are made to set up. Generally, there is two sources of infection during the surgery, exogenous and endogenous infection. Endogenous infection usually comes from the patient body itself. While the latter infections depend on the surrounding environment at which the surgery is carried out and the level of sterilization of the surgical instruments. Thus the staging of surgery prior to surgical techniques plays the important role.