Surgery Department
Physical Hazards
Biological Hazards
🪡 Sharps Safety
🧪 Chemical & Waste
100

This plan places ORs around a central clean core

  • What is the racetrack plan?
100

Three keys to radiation safety

What are time, shielding, and distance?

100

Treat all fluids as infectious

What are Standard Precautions?

100

Most common sharps injury source

What are needles and scalpels?

100

Bag color for infectious waste

What is red biohazard bag?

200

This design groups ORs by specialty like neuro or general surgery

What is the specialty grouping plan?

200

Device used to cut/coagulate tissue electrically


What is an ESU or Bovie?

200

Severe, life-threatening latex reaction

What is Type I hypersensitivity?

200

Wearing two gloves reduces this risk


What is sharps injury/exposure?

200

Escaped vapors from anesthesia machine

What are waste anesthetic gases?

300

Main goal of separating clean and dirty areas


What is preventing surgical site infections (SSI)?

300

Three parts of the fire triangle

What are oxygen, fuel, and ignition?

300

Smoke from cauterized tissue


What is surgical plume?

300

Never do this with a needle

What is recapping?

300

Bone cement used in ortho surgery

What is PMMA?

400

This department sterilizes instruments


What is CSPD?

400

Fire response acronym

What is RACE?

400

Best method to remove plume

What is a smoke evacuator?

400

Safe passing method for sharps


What is neutral zone?

400

Tissue preservative chemical

What is formalin?

500

Ideal location of the surgery department


What is limited traffic and restricted public access?

500

Fire extinguisher use acronym


What is PASS?

500

Minimum distance for plume evacuation effectiveness

What is 1 centimeter?

500

First action after sharps injury

What is wash immediately and report?

500

Sterilization gas that is carcinogenic


What is ethylene oxide?

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