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ADC Infection Control Updated

The document outlines infection control procedures for candidates during an examination, emphasizing the importance of treating tasks as if performed on live patients while adhering to modified infection control standards. It details the handling of instruments, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the proper disposal of sharps and amalgam materials. Candidates must follow specific protocols for maintaining clean and dirty zones, as well as guidelines for glove usage and sanitization throughout the exam.

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ADC Infection Control Updated

The document outlines infection control procedures for candidates during an examination, emphasizing the importance of treating tasks as if performed on live patients while adhering to modified infection control standards. It details the handling of instruments, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the proper disposal of sharps and amalgam materials. Candidates must follow specific protocols for maintaining clean and dirty zones, as well as guidelines for glove usage and sanitization throughout the exam.

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ADC Infection

Control Task
Infection Control

• Infection control is being assessed by


examiners ‘on-site’ throughout the exam.
• Candidates must perform all tasks as if
they were being performed on a live
patient and follow standard infection
control procedures with some minor
modifications to cater for an examination
environment.
• Candidates should assume that all
instruments are sterile on Day One and
that they are treating the same patient for
all tasks.
Dr Mohamed Soliman
Infection Control

• You may use transfer tweezers whilst


gloved to retrieve items from a clean area.
• Standard infection control procedures are
modified for this examination to allow
candidates to continue wearing gloves
in the following specific circumstances
only:
➢when adjusting the manikin head
position
➢when using the amalgamators

Dr Mohamed Soliman
What to do if you drop
something?!
• If a candidate drops an instrument or treatment
material during a task, they must notify an examiner
before retrieving the item
In most of cases, the examiner will ask what are you
going to do in a clinical situation?
And the answer should be
‘Either I or the dental assistant should pick the
instrument and put it in the dirty zone to be sterilized,
take the gloves out, wash hands, retrieve a new
instrument, put new gloves and continue with the
procedure’

Dr Mohamed Soliman
Clean & Dirty zones within your bay

• In your bay, areas will be marked either


clean or dirty and the examiner will give
you instructions regarding that before the
exam starts.
• The bracket table (dirty) will have the
diagnostic cassette, bur block and light
proof mixing well for composite, bond and
etch.

Dr Mohamed Soliman
Clean & Dirty zones within your bay

• The movable cabinet (drawers trolley): its


top is considered dirty and they will put the
other cassette with restorative instruments,
also transfer tweezer on a container
(tweezer tip is clean and handle is dirty) and
you can put the materials to be frequently
used on top of that cabinet.
Inside the drawers, consumable materials will
be provided and you shouldn’t touch them or
the drawer handles with gloves, instead use
the transfer tweezer.
Clean & Dirty zones within your bay
Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE)

• In the exam, you should have:


- Suitable enclosed footwear
- Tie long hair back
- Remove wrist watches
- Plain ring only
- No dangling earrings or necklaces
Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE)
• In the exam, either in OSCE procedure or Technical
day after setting-up your instruments and materials
in your bay, wash your hands, dry them well, wear
the gown, then wear your mask, eye protection,
sanitise then wear gloves .. In this sequence

Dr Mohamed Soliman
Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE)
• In Technical Day: If you are going out of your bay for any
reason other than common area (break, toilet, finished the
exam) you should take off the PPE in this sequence (gloves
then eye protection then gown then mask) gloves and
masks to be thrown and you can keep your eye protection
in clean area then wash your hands.
• In Technical Day: If you are going to common area to pick
any material, you should take off your gloves, sanitise and
go with other PPE on.
• In OSCE Procedures: putting the PPE the same as
discussed earlier and after you finish, you should take off
the PPE in this sequence (gloves then eye protection then
gown then mask)
• Every time you take your gloves off or put new gloves you
need to sanitise with alcohol hand rub.
Dr Mohamed Soliman
Sharps and Amalgam
containers

:Sharps should be disposed into sharps container ASAP


Wedges
Wedge guards
Matrix bands
Scalpel blades

Burs also considered sharps and should be removed from handpieces


as soon you finish the task or before you leave your bay for break or at
the end of the exam

Amalgam Containers will be provided: for empty amalgam capsules 2


and for the excess of amalgam used

Dr Mohamed Soliman
IMPORTANT POINTS

• DO NOT touch your mask, your hair or hair


cover, your dental stool or the dental chair
with gloved hands
• You can adjust the dental chair light or the
manikin head with the gloves on
• DO NOT leave any of the restorative
materials or putty index on the bracket
table along with the instruments (this
includes composite syringes, amalgam
capsules, provisional crown material with
its gun … etc.)

Dr Mohamed Soliman
IMPORTANT POINTS

• To cut the putty index, they will provide a


disposable blade to cut it in your bay.
• DO NOT leave any sharps along with the
instruments in the bracket table especially
when you go for break time and at the end of
exam day, make sure you dispose them well in
the sharps container

Dr Mohamed Soliman
IMPORTANT POINTS

• If you are using loupes which is assembled on


safety glass no need to wear side shields but if
it’s assembled on prescription glass you will
need to put side shields.

Dr Mohamed Soliman
Questions?!
Thank You
Dr Mohamed Soliman
Dr Ahmad Abdel-Hameed

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