The Importance of Sterilizing Tools Used in Surgical Operations in Health Facilities

Abstract

Since healthcare services offered at hospitals involve complex services possessing likelihood of “causing death or injury”, it is considered being “High Risk Sector”. Operation rooms in hospitals are one of the most complex, risky environments where technologically well-advanced equipment is used, where operation techniques and methods established in the light of new and developed information are employed. It has utmost importance for the patient safety to protect operation rooms from asepsis and ensure maximum level of sterilization. Hospital infections and sterilized areas related issues in operation rooms are some of the situations posing risk to patient safety. This present study evaluates the conditions and requirement of cleaning, sanitization and cleansing of equipment before and after the procedures in a given hospital.