Carrie is a new medical assistant who is assisting for the first time as a floater for a minor surgical procedure. The physician removes tissue from the incision and asks Carrie for the container in which to place the specimen for laboratory examination. Carrie grasps the specimen container and reaches across the tray so the physician can place the specimen in the container. What did Carrie do wrong?
A. She should not have touched the sterile specimen container.
B. She should not have reached across the tray.
C. She should have asked the sterile scrub assistant to offer the container.
D. She should have used transfer forceps to grasp the tissue.
E. She should have placed the specimen container on the tray.
B. She should not have reached across the tray.
By reaching across the tray, Carrie contaminated the sterile field.
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