Chapter32
The type of disease that cannot not be spread from person to person
What is a noninfectious disease?
The fire response action if you smell smoke or suspect a fire
What is RACE?
Rescue, Activate, Confine, Extinguish
The suffix -caine is found at the end of which classification of drugs
What is anesthetics?
The biopsy that uses a small blade to remove a skin abnormality and a small layer of surrounding skin
What is a shave biopsy?
Before a laboratory test can be used for patient samples, a quality control must show both accuracy and precision to be considered *this*
What is reliable?
The stage of the disease when it is at its peak
What is acute stage?
The process of cleaning equipment and instruments with detergent to reduce the number of microorganisms
What is Sanitization?
The action of epinephrine which is added to local anesthetics
What is vasoconstriction?
The term means "the margins or edges of the wound fit neatly together"
What is 'well approximated'?
A comprehensive set of written procedures developed to ensure the reliability of laboratory results
What is quality assurance?
A thick-walled, dormant form of bacteria that is very resistant to disinfection measures
What is spores?
The ability to determine what needs to be done and take action on your own is
What is initiative?
The correct term for nose bleed
What is epistaxis?
What is a surgical hand scrub?
The process of checking the precision, accuracy, and limits of an instrument by comparing measurements of the instrument with that of a known standard or reference instrument is
What is calibration?
The four (4) ways pathogens enter the body
What is ingested, inhaled, injected, through mucous membranes?
The type of emergency medication and equipment cart stored for easy access in the medical office
What is a 'crash cart'?
The solution typically used to preserve excised tissue for specimens
What is formalin?
The surgical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the function of healthy tissue
What is debridement?
A profile testing or "panel" of tests for an assessment of total cholestrerol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
What is a lipid profile, or lipid panel
After existing the reservoir host the organisms direct mode of transmission occurs from these four (4) methods
What is droplet transmission, sexual transmission, bloodborne transmission, food-borne transmission
The refrigerators should maintain temperatures between ___*F to ___*F
What is 36*F to 46*F?
The cleaning process to rinse first, then place instruments in a basin full of cold water and mild detergent
What is sanitize?
The non-sterile items on a Mayo tray for a cyst removal procedure is: (at least 5 items)
What is gauze, sterile gloves for provider, anesthetic medication vial, alcohol pads, dressing material, gloves, specimen container.
The three (3) stages of quality assurance in the laboratory
What is preanalytic stage, analytic stage, postanalytic stage?