Infection Control and Asepsis

Running head: INFECTION CONTROL AND ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE
INFECTION CONTROL AND ASEPSIS TECHNIQUE
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Table of Contents
ASEPSIS....................................................................................................................................2
Critique and Analysis of the Literature......................................................................................2
MAIN ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH ACORN STANDARD................................................7
ACORN STANDARDS AND PATIENT SAFETY.................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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ASEPSIS
Critique and Analysis of the Literature
For performing a literature review of this study, an electronic search strategy was
used. The databases used for the study was Pubmed, Biomed, Science direct, CINHL. The
keywords used were perioperative care, aseptic technique, government framework, cultural
and organizational framework, ACORN nurse training, non -adherence to asepsis guidelines.
The inclusion criteria chosen for this study – journal articles from the year 2015 to present
and exclusion criteria excludes all the articles before 2015. This has been done to gain a
broader perspective of aseptic technique compliance in the recent years. Different articles
with different issues related to clinical practice has been used for literature review to re-
analyze the ‘errors’ and problem solving from different point of view.
Austin, Hand and Elia (2015) aimed to test whether the risk of microbial dose
contamination reduces by aseptic preparation of sterile doses additives or parenteral doses in
a pharmaceutical environment rather than a clinical environment. This research provides a
meta-analysis and systemic review of clinical risk posed by microbial contamination in a
comparative study of aseptic techniques between pharmaceutical and clinical environments.
Meta analyses, t-tests were used in comparing dose contamination frequencies. The article
concluded that very limited evidence on microbial contamination rates supports in favor of
dose preparation in pharmaceutical environment rather than in clinical environments. The
article even do not support batch preparation within clinical environments. The research
articles analyses two different environments – pharmaceutical and clinical (perioperative) in
securing patient safety against microbial contamination and statistical tests like T-tests and
meta-analyses were used to compare the results. A pharmaceutical setting is devoid of
patients and is generally sustained with high sterility, thus reducing the rate of contamination