What measures were taken in surgery to ensure it was antiseptic?

Measured take to ensure antiseptic surgery: - all medical staff had to wash their hands, faces and arms before entering the operating theatre - rubber gloves and gowns were worn which decreased the 1890’s rate of infection in wounds - the air was sterilised as it was pumped over a heating system to kill germs - a method developed from German surgeons in 1880/1890 - the use of steam sterilisation was expelled through an autoclave invented in 1881, which sterilised surgical instruments in boiling steam