A surgeon demonstrates the complete hand-scrubbing routine before surgery, including removing jewelry, scrubbing under fingernails with a brush, and rinsing from hands toward elbows to prevent recontamination. Every step aims to eliminate microbial contamination before entering the sterile operating room.
This is how we scrub in for surgery. I'm not actually scrubbing in for surgery, but I just kind of want to show you the process because my hands are kind of a little bit dirty. Basically what you want to do is get your hands wet with a little pre-wash, and you take this and you kind of get everything all kind of nice and scrubby. And then you take this thing. Guess what this thing is for? This is to get underneath your fingernails. In fact, you also, if you didn't catch it, you want to remove any jewelry you have off of your hands so that you can get to every little nook and cranny. Okay, so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go underneath the fingernails, and look at all this dirt I have underneath here. So So we gotta remove all of that so that there is no possible contamination of our surgical site environment. Now we get everything scrubbed up again and then we use this brush side. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And all in those little nooks and crannies. And we wanna do this, we wanna go over the hands, all over, up the arms, okay? I'm just gonna spare you that detail. Lastly, what you wanna do is rinse off so that it goes down the elbow, okay? So that's kind of an important thing. You don't wanna have water go down your hand after you wash your hands. This is magic. Can have an automatic sensor or a foot pedal. I like the foot pedal because I can control it. And then you go up like this, you go up kind of like that, and then you watch all the movies, they walk in with their butt and they go this way and they bump the door open and get ready to scrub it.
