Question

dental assistant in your practice is in charge of sterilizing all instruments. She follows OSHA guidelines for handling and processing contaminated instruments and until today has never sustained a percutaneous injury. To save time on this especially busy morning, the assistant retrieved the contaminated instruments from the ultrasonic cleaner using latex gloves as the PPE for this task, sustaining a puncture wound on the pad of the ring finger. Normally the assistant is completely in control, but the incident rattles her and she comes to you asking for help. She doesn’t know what to do. List the equipment and supplies you will need, and detail the first aid procedure following an exposure incident.

Answer 1

In a case like this, it would be necessary to clean the site of the injury, protect the injury from the external environment and wear clean gloves.

Step-by-step explanation:

Clean gloves must be given to the assistant so that she can continue activities without risk of infection.