Brian W Skellie – Sharing ideas
Ever wonder why we get different results when we search for the same thing? I don’t think it is a glass half empty/half full thing. It seems evident that the internet is serving as both the library and news journal for many of us, and that our machine personalized search results from Google, Yahoo, Bing and the rest are skewed in different ways. This has been apparent on Facebook as well, perhaps in a more obvious way when some of our friends’ disappeared from our news feeds.
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.
If a product is not labeled for surgical preparation, it really doesn’t matter how good of a hand and body soap or cleanser it is. It would only be a really strong hand wash product, or potential aftercare for our purposes.
Choose a product that has claims as a “surgical skin preparation” because “scrub” alone is only the first step as cleaning. A two step “scrub then paint” process is appropriate and advised by CDC. That involves a solvent or detergent scrub to clean followed by the surgical antiseptic to kill microbes to an irreducible minimum level of contamination.
I’m still looking for a universal surgical preparation agent, and have not yet found anything on the market that is both proven and FDA approved other than PVP-I, CHG based products and alcohol. I don’t want to recommend anything unless it is tested and labeled for the purpose.
Other than making people shiny, my job is to help my fellow piercers and tattoo artists make their work easier, cleaner and safer
A study inadvertently proves that externally threaded jewelry can harbor bacterial colonies in biofilm.
(now defunct)The Charles Fort Institute, full of fascination with the world around us. More information here https://forteantimes.com/
I’ve been amused by The Straight Dope for years. Hooray for Cecil Adams and his team of sassy researchers. via The Straight Dope – Fighting Ignorance Since 1973.
An educational overview of some of the important historical steps forward in infection control and sterilization
