FOUNDATIONS
This is the process that renders a contaminated item safe for further handling, though not necessarily sterile.
What is decontamination?
This word element comes at the end of a medical term and often signals a procedure or condition.
What is a suffix?
This blood component, made in bone marrow, is responsible for clotting.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
This is the shape classification of Staphylococcus bacteria.
What is spherical (coccus)?
This equipment, following OSHA's Standard Precautions, includes gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
This document lists a specific surgeon's preferred instruments, supplies, and draping for a given procedure.
What is a (doctor's/physician's) preference card?
This suffix means "surgical removal"
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What is -ectomy?
EX: appendectomy, hysterectomy, tonsillectomy
This gland, located at the base of the brain, is known as the endocrine system's "master gland."
What is the pituitary gland?
This special stain, using carbol fuchsin and acid alcohol, is used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
What is the acid-fast (Ziehl-Neelsen) stain?
This is the approximate percentage of all microorganisms that are actually harmless or beneficial.
What is 95%?
In the SPD's one-way workflow, this area comes between the Soiled Area and the Sterile Storage Area.
What is the Clean Processing Area?
This prefix means "half"
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What is hemi-?
EX: hemicolectomy
These are the two main divisions of the nervous system.
What are the Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
This is roughly how long it takes bacteria to reproduce by binary fission under optimal conditions.
What is 20 minutes?
This vessel is the largest artery in the entire human body.
What is the aorta?
This term describes an infection that develops on or after day 3 of a hospital stay — not present at admission.
What is a Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)?
This common surgical abbreviation stands for Total Hip Arthroplasty.
What is THA?
This joint type, found at the hip and shoulder, allows the widest range of rotational movement.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
This multi-drug resistant organism's name stands for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
What is MRSA?
This Gram-stain classification RETAINS the purple crystal violet stain even after the decolorizing step.
What is Gram-positive?
These are the 9 steps of the Processing Cycle, in order.
What is Clean → Inspect → Assemble → Package → Sterilize → Inspect → Store → Inspect → Dispense?
Breaking down "gastroenteritis" into its 3 parts, this is what the word root "enter" means.
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What is intestine?
gastro: stomach. enter: intestine. itis: inflammation
This is the correct path air travels through the respiratory system, from the nose to the lungs (name all structures in order).
What is Nose/Mouth → Pharynx → Larynx → Trachea → Bronchi → Lungs?
This type of infectious agent has no nucleic acid at all, isn't destroyed by standard heat sterilization, and causes CJD.
What is a prion?
Tissue forceps have this feature that dressing forceps lack (dressing forceps have serrations instead).
What are teeth?