Fenestrated Drape
Aperture Drape · Window Drape · Sterile Drape with a Window · Fenestrated Sheet
A single sterile sheet, usually blue nonwoven fabric, with a hole (window) cut in it. Many have an adhesive frame around the window that sticks to the skin.
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What it does and the lengths it comes in.
What it’s for
Covers the patient while leaving only the operative site exposed through the window, making one continuous sterile fieldSTAIR-ul feeldAn area set up with sterile drapes and supplies, kept free of all germs, for a sterile procedure.Full entry . Used for the abdomen, back, flank and perineumpair-ih-NEE-umThe area of skin and muscle between the genitals and the anus.perine/o perineumFull entry .
Lengths and variants
From small aperture drapes for minor procedures to full-body drapes. Makers name many by site: laparotomylap-uh-ROT-uh-meeSurgery that opens the abdomen through a large cut to reach the organs inside.lapar/o abdomen-tomy cutting intoFull entry , thoracotomythor-uh-KOT-uh-meeA surgical cut through the chest wall to reach the lungs, heart or other organs in the chest.thorac/o chest-tomy cutting intoFull entry , thyroid, ear and eye drapes.
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- Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 17 (Surgical Skin Preparation and Draping), p. 353
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