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# Infection prevention and control

Standard and transmission-based precautions, personal protective equipment, sterile technique and prevention bundles.

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## Fundamental

- [**Clean and sterile technique: medical and surgical asepsis** Clean technique reduces microorganisms; sterile technique removes them completely and is used…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/clean-and-sterile-technique-medical-and-surgical-asepsis/)
- [**Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of equipment** Each item is processed by the risk of its use: items entering sterile tissue are sterilized…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/cleaning-disinfection-and-sterilization-of-equipment/)

## Safe practice

- [**Healthcare waste: segregation and colour codes in Colombia** In Colombia, biological-risk waste goes in red containers and bags; sharps in the sharps…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/healthcare-waste-segregation-and-colour-codes-in-colombia/)
- [**Preventing healthcare-associated infections: the care bundles** Small sets of evidence-based measures that, applied together in every patient, prevent…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/preventing-healthcare-associated-infections-the-care-bundles/)
- [**Sharps safety and what to do after a needlestick** How to avoid injuries from needles and other sharps, and what to do straight away after a blood…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/sharps-safety-and-what-to-do-after-a-needlestick/)
- [**Standard precautions** The basic measures used with every patient, every time, to avoid spreading microorganisms…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/standard-precautions/)
- [**Transmission-based precautions: contact, droplet and airborne** Measures added to standard precautions when a patient has, or may have, an infection spread by…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/transmission-based-precautions-contact-droplet-and-airborne/)

## Procedure

- [**Putting on and taking off personal protective equipment** Putting PPE on and taking it off in the right order protects against self-contamination, which…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/putting-on-and-taking-off-personal-protective-equipment/)
- [**Setting up a sterile field and putting on sterile gloves** How to open sterile supplies, set up a field and put on sterile gloves without contaminating…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/setting-up-a-sterile-field-and-putting-on-sterile-gloves/)

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