[Hygiene in ophthalmological care quality: in the operating room].

Ocular surgery has become more and more refined over the last century. However, infections occurring after surgical procedures are very often devastating and sight-threatening. This review provides a number of details on the environment of ocular surgery, mainly, the patient, staff, medical devices used and the operating room. Proper understanding of basic hygiene rules is mandatory on the part of all individuals involved in eye care and particularly in ocular surgery in order to decrease the ocular morbidity due to postoperative ocular infections.