Brian W Skellie – Sharing ideas
Understanding the hazards of handling and mixing chemicals is essential to safe use.
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.
Body art procedures can benefit from sterile-barrier precautions, even if they are not as complicated as modern surgical procedures.
A surgeon who first advocated sterilized gloves. The first paper on sterile gloves in 1897: WZ von Manteuffel
Hand Hygiene in the New England Journal of Medicine Complete with interesting video Hand Hygiene Yves Longtin, M.D., Hugo Sax, M.D., Benedetta Allegranzi, M.D., Franck Schneider, and Didier Pittet, M.D. N Engl J Med 2011; 364:e24 March 31, 2011
Brian Skellie teaches sterilization skills for the professional body piercer and tattooist in Milan at the 7th APTPI congress
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STATIM is not “flash sterilization” and the term should no longer be used in reference to sterilization cycles for unwrapped items.
https://www.fightgermsnow.com/
A useful collection of scientific studies on antimicrobial use in clinical and home settings.
For brevity, I suggest that you use all sterile disposable single use items, however if you are to reprocess used instruments: Classes Publications