Asepsis

Rubber Gloves: “Born” – and Now Banished – At Johns Hopkins – 01/14/2008

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old laytex glove

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.

Selected freehand piercings

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Here is a glimpse of a few piercings I performed during an exhibition for colleagues in New England. I enjoy sharing ideas and techniques with my peers. Let me know what you think.

My goal is an atraumatic aseptic technique: Primum non nocere

All of these piercings were performed without clamps using the STATIM 2000 autoclave, sterilized single use equipment, sterile nitrile gloves, and the titanium jewelry was anodized with the Reactive Metals Micro anodizer.

A video of a few procedures by Brian Skellie
  • Preparing nonwoven gauze compresses for drapes
  • Diamond cutout for drape window
  • Simple setup in the Statim 2000 cassette
  • Male nipple piercing without clamps
  • Eyebrow piercing without clamps
  • Tragus piercing posterior to anterior without clamps
  • Aseptic navel piercing with sterile gloves and fenestrated sterile drape.
  • An example of surgical use for a fenestrated sterile drape
  • An example sterile drape

A brief history of sterilization

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A Brief History of Sterilization : An educational overview of some of the important historical steps forward in infection control and sterilization

An educational overview of some of the important historical steps forward in infection control and sterilization