Open Workshop SE
Brian Skellie shared piercing techniques at the Open Workshop in Stockholm SE November 9-11, 2012
JHU Infection Prevention Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities with Limited Resources
Links: Some educational infection prevention materials for body artists
Maintaining a Sterile Field
Why use a non-sterile dental bib when there are safer sterile options that are proven moisture barriers? Options and discussion.
Marking for procedures
Some ideas about aseptic skin marking for procedures
Rubber Gloves: “Born” – and Now Banished – At Johns Hopkins – 01/14/2008
William Stewart Halsted, The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s first surgeon in chief, is widely credited as the first to develop and introduce rubber surgical gloves in the United States. That was in 1894, five years after the institution opened.
Now, in an effort to make medical care safer for patients and health care workers, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has become the first major medical institution to become “latex safe” by ending all use of latex gloves and almost all medical latex products.
Preventing complications: When sterile gloves are necessary
Body art procedures can benefit from sterile-barrier precautions, even if they are not as complicated as modern surgical procedures.
Sterile Gloves first in 1897 by W Z Manteuffel
The surgeon who first advocated sterilized gloves
Selected freehand piercings
Here is a look at a few recent piercings I performed during an exhibition for colleagues in New England. I really enjoy sharing ideas and techniques as a guest of my peers. My goal is an atraumatic aseptic technique: Primum non nocere
A brief history of sterilization
An educational overview of some of the important historical steps forward in infection control and sterilization
