The Essential Role of Surgical Scrubs in Modern Healthcare
Surgical scrubs serve as an important piece to our healthcare attire. Scrubs played an integral role in the growth of sanitary, modern medicine as we know it today. They have contributed to keeping some of the most vulnerable patients safe from infections and have managed to keep many healthcare workers just as safe by serving as a control center to our PPE. In this piece, we discuss the role that scrubs play in our everyday lives, their history, and why the scrub thoughtfully evolved to keep up with the needs of modern healthcare. The Evolution of Surgical Scrubs Surgical Scrubs have come a long way from the first efforts to sterilize and protect the wearer. Until the early 20th century, surgery was performed in street clothes, but with advances in medical science and an awareness of how germs from the hands and clothing of the surgeon could lead to disease and death in the patient, some sort of sterile, protective outer layers seemed necessary. Oversised white gowns were the fir...