Introduction
A surgical cap is one of the medical device, which is a surgical protection product carefully designed and manufactured in strict accordance with medical hygiene standards. It is mainly used in medical institutions as one of the protective items for medical staff and patients during treatment and surgery.

the bouffant cap is used in the patient's facial surgery, such as eye, nose, mouth, ear, and maxillofacial neck surgery, the purpose is to cover all the patient's hair and fixed firmly, fully reveal the surgical field of view, prevent the hair from reaching into the surgical site, contamination of the incision, affecting the surgical operation, while the doctor also needs to wear.

The benefits of surgical cap
1. Isolation of bacteria generated by trauma
Surgical caps can make medical staff hair wrapped within, avoid hair direct contact with the wound or surgical instruments, prevent hair bacteria and dust, and other impurities from contamination of the operating room, surgical instruments, and trauma, and thus reduce the surgical site infection, cross-infection and nosocomial infection opportunities.

2. Keep the surgical area clean and hygienic
Surgical hats can effectively keep the hair of medical personnel from contamination and avoid hygiene problems caused by hair falling out. During surgery, the surgical cap can cover the hair of medical personnel to prevent hair from falling into the wound or surgical instruments, thus keeping the surgical site clean and hygienic and reducing the risk of surgery.

3. Improve surgical efficiency
A surgical cap can avoid the distraction caused by the hair fluttering, slowing down the speed and efficiency of surgery. Surgical hats can effectively control hair so that medical personnel can focus on patient treatment and surgery, and improve surgical efficiency.

4. Enhance occupational health awareness
A surgical cap is one of the necessary protective items for medical and healthcare workers. It is the norm for medical and nursing staff to perform surgery and treatment and has a very important significance. Wearing a surgical hat not only can enhance the medical personnel's occupational health consciousness, and improve the practitioner's own health quality, but also help to ensure the health and safety of patients and medical personnel.

In short, the bouffant cap is the medical personnel surgery and treatment process essential protective supplies, its main function is to avoid hair brought about by bacteria, pollution, and other problems, to maintain the surgical area clean and hygienic, enhance occupational health awareness and improve the efficiency of carrying out surgery.

Other names of surgical caps
Scrub caps, surgical hats, clip cap，doctor cap, or bouffant caps are all names for headwear worn by surgeons and medical professionals in the operating room. 

How to wear surgical caps
1, choose the appropriate size of the cap, which should fully cover the head and hairline of the hair.
2, the brim side of the cap should be tightened band or elastic band, to prevent intraoperative hair scattered.
3, the hair is longer, wear the cap before the hair should be well bundled, the hair will all buckle into the cap.

Surgical cap production materials
Most surgical caps are disposable products, the material is non-woven, light and soft, waterproof, breathable, non-toxic, non-irritating, antibacterial, chemical resistant, environmental protection, and other characteristics. And the material is dense, dustproof, antibacterial, vomit and blood is not easy to penetrate, inexpensive, safe, hygienic, and convenient to use.

The use of surgical caps scene
The surgical cap is mainly for hospital operating rooms, beauty, pharmaceutical, factory laboratories, and other specific places to use, while after continuous practice in the patient also frequently used, for some eyes, nose, mouth, ears, maxillofacial and neck surgery, the surgical cap will be worn on the patient's head. The patient's hair can be covered and fixed firmly, fully revealing the surgical field of view, and can effectively prevent the hair from reaching into the surgical site to contaminate the incision, affecting the surgical operation. 

What are the colors of surgical caps?
The traditional disposable surgical cap is mostly light blue, dark blue, green, purple, etc. Some hospitals use the color of the surgical cap to distinguish the management of different personnel. So that the color is bright and eye-catching, identify identity at a glance. There are also various patterns of the print surgical cap, such surgical cap that can add a warm color to the cold operating room, close the distance between the doctor and the patient, so that the patient soothes emotions, relaxation, and reduce the patient's fear of surgery.

Surgical cap precautions
An operating room for disposable medical supplies should be set up for the management of a person, a person to receive, receive disposable supplies should be the quality of customs, and strictly check whether the product has a health license, inspection certificate, production date, product identification, and sterilization expiration date, etc., unqualified products are never allowed to be put into clinical use.

All disposable surgical supplies received should be placed in a dry and clean, well-lit warehouse, neatly arranged according to the categories of supplies. And regularly check whether the sterilization of disposable supplies is invalid, all invalid supplies should not be used, high-value disposable supplies should be collected and kept under lock and key, and a person should be responsible for issuing them to avoid loss.

According to the size of the surgical dosage at any time to receive additional supplies to ensure the normal use of surgical caps, each time the amount of supplies received back should not be large. In order to avoid the backlog of supplies caused by the failure, thus bringing unnecessary losses, the use should be used according to the order of the sterilization expiration date.

The purpose and usage of each disposable surgical supply must be clarified, and the packaging of the supplies should be strictly checked for damage and air leakage and the expiration of the sterilization period before use, and if the above problems are found, the use should be stopped immediately.

Conclusion
Surgical caps can well prevent the spread of germs between patients and reduce the chances of virus transmission. For those who need to order surgical caps in large quantities, look to Woozon Healthcare, which manufactures and sells disposable protective equipment and has many certifications to provide quality service to its customers. Woozon Healthcare has been working in the disposable protective equipment industry for a long time and we understand the needs of our customers better than anyone else. Our quality products have earned us a position as a leading supplier of disposable medical protective equipment.