A timed scrub should last for one to three minutes. Vigorous scrubbing causes skin to become damaged and should be avoided. The surgeon is normally gloved and gowned by the circulating nurse. The purpose of surgical hand scrub is to sterilize the hands prior to gowning and gloving. An ideal surgical scrub agent would have a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity against pathogenic organisms.
Bacteria grow faster under gloved than ungloved hands.
When donning sterile gloves, the surgical scrub becomes less important. Effective surgical scrubs are one of the most powerful strategies of infection prevention. Inc Please read our legal page before using this site.