Back to Basics
Assault and battery, Defamation, False imprisonment
What is intentional tort?
Physiological, Safety, Love and belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of needs?
Surgery reasons: congenital, disease, and trauma, may have separation anxiety
What are pediatric patients?
Registration/preoperative holding and PACU located here.
What is unrestricted?
often called a stat or snap
What is a hemostat?
Patient misidentification, performing an incorrect procedure, foreign bodies left in patients, patient burns
What is an unintentional tort?
Denial, rationalization, regression, repression
What are coping mechanisms?
Body weight is 100 pounds greater than ideal
What is morbid obesity?
OR attire is required, storage room for non-surgical instruments, equipment and supplies
What is semi-restriced?
My other name is a Rochester-Oesher.
What is a kocher?
Guarantees the patient is aware of his or her condition, the proposed intervention, risks, and variables
What is informed consent?
Set of therapies that preserve a patient’s life when body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life
What is life support?
Affects insulin production in the pancreas and glucose tolerance in the body and often genetic
What is diabetes?
Intraoperative x-rays from devices and uses gamma rays
What is ionizing radiation?
Round shaped bacteria
What is cocci?
Set of written instructions that address the right of an incapacitated patient to self-determination
What is advanced directive?
The brain stem continues to provide respiration, blood pressure, and a heartbeat without the assistance of a respirator.
What is higher brain death?
Contact: direct or indirect, droplet and airborne, common vehicle, vector-borne
What are infection routes?
Comes in class A, B, or C.
What are fire extinguishers?
Characterized by dementia and myloclonus and is associated with prion infections?
What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?
Include concern that we have for the well-being of others and respect for their autonomy
What are morals?
Requires actions that speed the process of dying, such as the administration of morphine.
What is active euthanasia?
Reaching the trauma victim and providing treatment within the first hour following injury are critical in determining the patient’s outcome
What is the golden hour?
Offensive and irritation to the eyes and respiratory tract and evacuated using special evacuator units
What is surgical plume?
I go into this place when I am not used.
What is a rigid holster?