You are performing a sterile surgical dressing change. You accidently drop a sterile piece of gauze on the table, outside the sterile field. What should you do?
A)Pick up the gauze with your sterile forceps and continue the dressing.
B)Get a new sterile gauze piece.
C)Use the gauze anyway. The client is on antibiotics, so it will fight any infectious agent that may be introduced.
D)Get a whole new dressing tray and start the procedure over again.

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If a piece of gauze from your sterile dressing tray falls outside the sterile field, you must replace it with a new, sterile one. It is not necessary to start the procedure over.

You Are Performing a Sterile Surgical Dressing Change