Key Terms
Air Exchanges
What are new air replacements?
Autoclave
What is a device that generates heat and pressure to sterilize objects instruments, and measures vessels?
Compounded Sterile Preparation (CSP)
What is a medication prepared with aseptic technique in a sterile, cleanroom facility?
Drop factor
What is the number of drops that an IV tubing delivers to provide 1 mL; this number may be used by nurses to calculate the IV flow rate when using certain types of primary IV tubing; also called drop set or drip set?
Injection Port
What is a connector on the IV tubing which allows the injection of IV fluid or medication other than that in the current IV bag to be infused into the patient’s vein?
Anteroom
What is an ISO Class 8 room or area immediately before the buffer room in which hand washing, hygiene, and garbing are done and supplies and ingredients are gathered between the pharmacy department and the cleanroom or buffer area?
Auxiliary Clamp
What is a slide clamp used to completely stop the IV solution from flowing?
Critical Site
What is the part of the syringe and/or needle that is at risk for contamination by touch or airflow interruption?
Epidemic
What is a regional widespread contagious disease?
In-Line Filter
What is a device used in the IV line to remove contaminants such as glass, fibers, bits of rubber, and bacteria from IV fluids?
Asepsis
What is the absence of pathogenic microorganisms?
Bacterium
What is a small, single-celled microorganism that can exist in three main forms, depending on type: spherical (i,e., cocci), rod-shaped (i.e., bacilli), and spiral (i.e., spirochetes)?
Disinfectant
What is a chemical agent such as sterile 70% IPA used on inanimate surfaces and objects to destroy fungi, viruses, and bacteria, but not necessarily their spores?
Filtration
What is the funneling of a liquid or gas through filters, or mesh screens with minute holes too small for biological and chemical contaminants to pass through?
ISO
What is an air quality classification from the International Organization for Standardization measures the amount of particulate matter in room air; the lower the ISO number, the less particulate matter is present in the air?
Aseptic hand washing
What is a more aggressive soap and water hand washing procedure followed by use of an antiseptic agent before donning sterile attire?
Buffer room
What is an ISO Class 7 or cleaner area where the PECs are physically located; also called the IV or cleanroom?
Distillation
What is the process of boiling a liquid and capturing the condensed gases or vapor back into a purified liquid form?
High-efficiency particulate airflow filter (HEPA)
What is a device used to fulter over 99% of particulate matter from the air to establish an aseptic environment in which to prepare CSPs?
IV administration set
What is a sterile, disposable device of many components (including the tubing and ports) used to deliver IV fluids to patients?
Aseptic technique
What is the manipulation of sterile products and devices to avoid contamination by disease-causing organisms; includes cleanroom protocols and hand-washing and gowning procedures?
Clean room
What is an ISO-classified room (or two-room configuration of a cleanroom area) in which the concentration of airborne particles is controlled to meet a specified airborne-particulate cleanliness class to prevent particle and microbial contamination of CSPs; also called the IV room or buffer room?
Drip chamber
What is the small, open space just below the spike adaptor where the drops of fluid from the IV bag into the tubing are counted by the nurse to determine the flow rate of the IV solution?
Horizontal Laminar Air Flow Workbench (H-LAFW)
What is also known as a laminar hood, a PEC (with an ISO Class 5 air quality in its DCA) used to prepare IV drug admixtures, nutrition solutions, and other parenteral products aseptically?
IV piggyback (IVPB)
What is a small-volume parenteral (SVP) infusion (50 mL, 100 mL, 250 mL) containing medications attached to a primary LVP IV solution?