[Solved]: Once the patient has been brought back to the…

Once the patient has been brought back to the operating room, the circulator first positions the patient then performs a preoperative skin prep with an antiseptic solution. What is your understanding of the purpose or objective of this procedure? The patient’s skin must be sterilized prior to the surgeon making the incision because they could otherwise get a surgical site infection post-operatively. The preoperative skin prep is done to reduce the potential for post-operative surgical site infection by removing transient dirt, oils and microbes and reducing the resident microbial population to irreducible numbers.