. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. an assistant. The skin is disinfected with iodin ( per cent.) andalcohol (95 per cent.), the umbilicus being left in abdominalwork to the last, and the sponge stick then thrown then bounding this area are now thrown asidealso, and the new ones are unfolded (Fig. 16) at the level ofthe patients body and not until the patient is reached(Fig. 17). They had lain on a sterile table freshly set did not touch anything unsterile in transit. Theycame out of a package opened by the unscrubbed nurse insuch a way that her hand did no


. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. an assistant. The skin is disinfected with iodin ( per cent.) andalcohol (95 per cent.), the umbilicus being left in abdominalwork to the last, and the sponge stick then thrown then bounding this area are now thrown asidealso, and the new ones are unfolded (Fig. 16) at the level ofthe patients body and not until the patient is reached(Fig. 17). They had lain on a sterile table freshly set did not touch anything unsterile in transit. Theycame out of a package opened by the unscrubbed nurse insuch a way that her hand did not touch the inside ofthe bundle. She pinched the corners in turn exteriorly,pulling them back like a snap-dragon. The knife making the incision had been sterilized andlaid on the sterile table; it had been handed to the sur- 120 OPERATING ROOM geons hand by an assistant whose gown had long sleevesand whose gloves were pulled on by the inside of thewrists, as they are done up in their packages, so that hisbare fingers never touched the


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