Hello everybody. I am Mike from Surgtech Academy and today I'm going to
demonstrate the steps for gowning and gloving another person. Now most often I
would have my goggles and my mask on but for today, education purposes, I'm gonna
have those off. Now usually the person that's gonna come into the room is a
surgeon but it can be another scrub tech, can be a nurse, can be a resident, whoever.
At this point I've already gowned and glowed myself and my field and myself
are sterile. So first, the person walks into the room and I have to present the
towel to them. Now I know how much I hate those white paper towels so I always
give my surgeon a cloth towel. So on the short edge of the towel I create a cuff
and I place the towel into the surgeon's right hand. Now while they are drying
their hands I don't have to watch them do that. I can go on to the next step.
And I'm gonna go ahead and grab the gown. Now a couple of things. I always present
the gown pointing towards the surgeon, I extend the gown all the way to the floor,
making sure I don't touch anything unsterile. I like to grab the very side
edges of the gown. Now there are a couple ways we can cuff our hands. I like to do
this little twirly action so that way my fingers are completely cuffed. Some
people just grab the gown and put it on. It's really up to you. The key is you
want to make sure all your fingers are covered. So after I've made a good cuff,
the arm holes are open, the surgeon is gonna walk in, and I'm gonna drop the
gown right about the ear.s Now the key to this is I have a good cuff with my
gloves going in but coming out they're open. So if I extend too far and I come
back the risk is that I could touch the bonnet or their goggles. So I always tell
my students drop at the ears. After I've dropped the gown I'm gonna expose the
hands. Again sometimes a surgeon is gonna take care of this on their own. Sometimes
a circulator will pull on the gown. But again we're going to expose the
hands. Next we're gonna grab the glove. I tell my students always to do the right
glove first. Now there's a couple techniques we can use when we glove the
surgeon. So I think the best way is to completely cover our hands. And the way,
how we do that, is by, we invert the very edge of the glove. So I'm gonna go ahead
and invert the very edge and put my thumb's underneath. Now the key is I want
to get a perfect circle for the surgeon to put their hand in. So palm is facing
towards the surgeon, the writing is facing towards the surgeon, and I'm gonna
present the glove to them and the surgeon's gonna put it in. Awesome. Now the
left glove is a lot easier. Alright, I just extend the glove completely. The
palm and the writing are facing the surgeon. Alright, I just extend the
glove. Now this is where I use the second method of gloving. Here my thumbs are out,
they're not protected, but it's pretty hard to get them contaminated. So you can
either completely cover your fingers or just have your thumbs out. The surgeon is
gonna grab the glove and extend it to that perfect circle and put their hand
in. Awesome. So at this point the surgeon is gonna grab the top of the tie. I'm gonna
grab the green part. The surgeon is gonna turn and pull and tie. And there we have it. We
just gown and glove another team member. So until next time I want you to have a
great day in surgery be sure to be a superstar in your O.R.