Term this
Chemical agent approved for use on the skin that inhibits the growth and reproduction of microorganisms.
Antiseptic
The subungual are during the surgical hand scrub is done?
With a nail cleaner under the water.
When donning your gloves after your surgical gown is on what is that technique called?
Closed gloving
Distance a nonsterile person needs to be from a sterile field.
12-18 inches
If an item falls below table level it is?
No longer sterile
A wrapped sterile item may become contaminated by environmental conditions or events, such as a puncture in the wrapper. Event-related sterility refers to sterility based on the absence of such events. The shelf life of a sterilized pack is event related, not time related.
Event-related sterility
Number of planes your fingers have.
Four
Last task that is done after donning your surgical gown and gloves?
Spinning
A nonsterile person opens an envelope wrap which is the first unfold?
Away from you.
An instrument is suspected of contamination what does the surgical technologist do?
Isolate the instrument and get off the field.
Microorganisms that do not normally colonize in tissue but are the result of contact with the environment.
Transient flora
Surgical clean
The front of a sterile gown from the chest to the level of what?
The sterile field
How is your sterile field established?
Check-open-check
At the end of setup, the scrub and circulator count to establish what?
A baseline count
An event in which a sterile surface becomes contaminated by liquid or fluid wicked from a nonsterile surface.
Strike-through contamination
The distance above the elbows that you scrub?
2 inches
When closed gloving, which way do the fingers of the sterile glove face?
Towards your torso
A surgical technologist should never do what to the sterile field?
Turn their back to it.
Proper sequence of donning PPE.
Hair cover, mask, shoe covers
The absence of pathogenic microorganisms on an animate surface or on body tissue. Literally, asepsis means, "without infection," whereas sepsis literally means, "with infection."
Asepsis
What is the recommended for the timed surgical hand scrub?
2-6 minutes
What part of the surgical gown is not sterile when you don the gown on the arms?
The cuff
When delivering medications to the sterile field what steps should the surgical technologist take?
Verify and label all containers that medication will be in with name, strength, and expiration date immediately.
What happens to your sterile field if a surgery is delayed and you are already open and setup?
Continuous monitoring until start of case
How much of the border/perimeter of the inside of a sterile wrapper is considered non-sterile?
1 inch