General Patient Care and Safety
Which is the first area to be washed when performing a hand scrub?
Fingernails
Ten cc of solution are equivalent to?
10 mL
These items should be worn in a restricted area?
Scrubs, cap, and mask
When preparing clamps to be passed to the surgeon, they should be closed to?
The first ratchet
Smallest microorganisms known are?
Viruses
OR attire consists of which of the following?
Scrubs, eyewear, shoe covers, and bouffant
Anticoagulants prevent?
Blood coagulation
The distance that any operating room personnel should maintain from a sterile field?
12 inches
After the procedure, when preparing instruments for central processing, clamps should always be?
Open
When an infection develops as a result of being hospitalized, is termed?
Nosocomial Infection
Who activates the generator for an electrosurgical unit (ESU)?
Surgeon
This medication is a smooth muscle relaxant used to expand small blood vessels?
Papaverine
Set of laws passed in 1970?
Controlled Substance Act
Type of needle most frequently used to approximate tissue?
Curved
When a dirty object damages the skin and a wound is more than 6 hours old, the wound is classified as?
Dirty
Standard precautions apply to?
Body fluids, blood, and secretions
A preoperative narcotic medication used to increase the pain threshold?
Fentanyl
Granting of implied or informed permission by a patient for someone else to perform an action is called?
Consent
Which endoscope is used for visualization of the renal pelvis, calyces, and upper ureter?
Nephroscope
Wound healing that is also called delayed primary closure?
Third intention
When it is opened, a sterile item’s integrity is verified by viewing?
Indicator tape
The concentration of epinephrine that is for topical use only is?
1:1000
A system of moral principles or standards to govern personal conduct is called?
Ethics
Which sterilization method is a replacement for EO gas sterilization?
Plasma gas
Healing with no postoperative swelling, no infection, no separation of wound edges, and minimal scar formation is a type of wound healing called?
First intention