The entire surgical team is responsible for prevention of infection, and maintaining the sterile field in the operating room in the area that includes:
a. all members of the sterile team c. the client and the surgical site itself
b. all members of the surgical team d. the entire operating room
C
The entire surgical team is responsible for prevention of infection; for this reason, sterile team members perform a surgical scrub before gowning and gloving for the procedure, wear sterile gowns and gloves, use sterile drapes, place sterilized equipment on a sterile field, and are alert to breaks in technique that may harm the client. The skin over the client's operative site is also specially cleansed in the OR.
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