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Medical vs Surgical Asepsis

Every bedside task uses one of two levels of aseptic technique. Medical asepsis (clean technique) lowers the number of microbes; surgical asepsis (sterile technique) removes them all, spores included. Toggle the two, then tap a task to see which one it calls for.

Two levels of asepsis

Tap a technique or a bedside task to begin.
Clean vs sterilechoose a technique
Try it · which technique?