Seven-step washing generally refers to the method of medical staff washing their hands before and after surgery, which is used to clean dirt, bacteria, viruses and so on during surgery. Prevent the spread and infection of diseases. In general, each step should take no less than 15 seconds.

There are several steps to standardize hand washing. There are seven steps in total, as follows:

Step 1: Rub your palms, wash your palms, wet your hands with running water, apply hand sanitizer or soap, palms facing each other, and rub your fingers together.

Step 2: Knot your fingers, rub your palms, wash your palms, rub your fingers on your back and change hands.

Step 3: Cross your fingers, rub your hands and back, change hands, wash your palms and fingers, palms facing each other, cross your hands and rub each other along the direction of your fingers.

Step 4: Hold hands and rub your fingers back. Wash the back of your fingers and bend your fingers. Put the back of your finger in the palm of the other hand with a semi-clenched fist and rotate and rub, and exchange your hands.

Step 5: Hold the thumb with one hand, rub with the other hand, and exchange hands.

Step 6: Wash the wrist, put the five fingertips together in the palm of the other hand, rotate and rub the wrist and arm, and exchange hands.

Step 7: Spiral wrist rubbing, alternating wrist washing, wrist rubbing, arm rubbing and hand changing.

Wash your hands with the seven-step formula, soap, gently rub, foam, rub your palms, rub your fingers, cross the back of your hands and turn your wrists in circles. Rinse it and shake it to see who has the whitest hand.

Basic requirements for hand hygiene management 1. Medical institutions should formulate and implement hand hygiene management system, equipped with effective and convenient hand hygiene facilities.

2, medical institutions should regularly carry out hand hygiene training, medical staff should master hand hygiene knowledge and correct hand hygiene methods, to ensure the effect of hand washing and hand disinfection.

3, medical institutions should strengthen the guidance and supervision of medical staff, improve the compliance of medical staff hand hygiene.