Asepsis
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Asepsis (Greek a - without + sëptikos - causing suppuration, putrefactive) is a set of measures aimed at preventing the penetration of microorganisms into the wound and into the body as a whole.
Asepsis has the main goal: protecting the patient’s body and especially the wound from contact with an external bacterially contaminated environment; destruction of microorganisms using physical, chemical, biological and mechanical methods on everything that can come into contact with the patient’s wound, as well as on objects that can become a source of spread of nosocomial infection.
The basic law of asepsis: “Everything that comes into contact with the wound must be free of bacteria.” Asepsis should be distinguished from antiseptics, which aims to destroy pathogens already present in the wound using certain chemicals.
The aseptic method is a further development of the antiseptic method and is closely related to it.
