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You are performing a sterile surgical dressing change. You accidently drop a sterile piece of gauze on the table, outside the sterile field. What should you do?

Pick up the gauze with your sterile forceps and continue the dressing.
Get a new sterile gauze piece.
Use the gauze anyway. The client is on antibiotics, so it will fight any infectious agent that may be introduced.
Get a whole new dressing tray and start the procedure over again.

Explanation

Answer: B -If a piece of gauze from your sterile dressing tray falls outside the sterile field, you must replace it with a new, sterile one. It is not necessary to start the procedure over.

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