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Hospital Procedures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is orchiectonomy aka | Neuter or Castration |
| What is it the removal of | Surgical removal of the testicles |
| What is it used for | Prevention of aggression and/or unwanted breeding and may decrease chances of prostate disorders, perineal hernias, and tumors |
| When is it the best time | Preferred time to neuter is at 6 months of age or when unwanted behaviors arise and neutering earlier than six months can cause urinary problems later in life |
| What are the Contraindications/Complications | hemorrhaging and seroma |
| How do we reduce risk in the Clinic? | Keeping a clean, sanitized, or sterile environment is essential in the veterinary clinic and especially in surgery. |
| What methods are there to reduce risk | cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting |
| What does cleaning do | removes most germs, dirt, and impurities from surfaces. Clean with water, soap, and scrubbing |
| What does sanitizing do | reduces germs to levels public health codes or regulations consider safe. Sanitizing is done with weaker bleach solutions or sanitizing sprays. Clean surfaces before you sanitize them. |
| What does disinfecting do | kills most germs on surfaces and objects. Disinfecting is done with stronger chemicals. Clean surfaces before you disinfect them |
| What are the common chemicals | iodine, chlorhexidine, alcohols, quaternary ammonias, chlorine, and aldehydes |
| What is iodine | A common antiseptic (often yellow!) |
| What is chorhexidine | A common antiseptic |
| What are quaternary ammonias | Lots of our commonly used disinfection products are these |
| What is bleach | a common chlorine |
| What is an aldehyde | Formaldehyde is a commonly used one |
| These range on effectiveness as to what they kill: | Bacteria, viruses, fungal spores |
| They also range in being irritation to tissues/dangerous to work with | True |
| What is Sterilization | Describes a process that destroys or eliminates all forms of microbial life and is carried out in health-care facilities by physical or chemical methods. |
| When is sterilization necessary | This is necessary for all surgical areas and equipment as infection risk is greatest |
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