Medical Asepsis
What is Asepsis?
How long should you wash your hands for?
20 seconds..
How long should you wait for your hands to dry
until it drys.
What color is a sharps container.
Red.
name 4 types of precautions
Droplet, contact, airborne, standard
What does Medical Asepsis do?
reduces the numbers of microbes and interrupts transmission from one person, place, or object to another.
what temperature should the water be?
Luke-warm
What precautions use hand sanitizer
ALL OF THEM.
True or False:
Alcohol based cleaning will not eliminate spores
TRUE
What are airborne precautions used for?
Used for diseases transmitted by tiny pathogens that are suspended on mucus or on tiny dust particles in the air.
What is Medical asepsis?
Procedures followed to keep germs from being spread from one person to another.
True or false: You can use ANY type of soap to wash your hands.
False...
True or False: You can use hand sanitizer when your hands are soiled.
False..
What is the most effective procedure for preventing infection?
Hand hygiene
What is used with standard precautions
transmission based precautions
Whats the missing word?:
If i take a linen in a patients room and i don´t use its still considered dirty because the linen has been exposed to the (.........) in the patients room.
Microbes
how should your hands be rinsing off the soap.
downwards/ finger tips pointing down.
what does hand sanitizer contain. (Atleast 2..)
Water, Alcohol, Glycerin,
Always work from the (........) to the least (..........) ,avoid scrubbing back and forth. This way you wont move pathogens and soiled items in a clean area.
Cleanest area, Clean area
What are the 4 modes of transmission..
Portal of Entry, Portal of Exit, Reservoir,Susceptible host, Droplet transmission, indirect contact, direct contact
What can you call Medical Asepsis
what does friction help with when you wash your hands?
helps loosen and remove microbes from the hands.
what percentage of alcohol needs to be in hand sanitizer
What is it called when you get poked with a needle at work.
occupational exposure.
What does SPIDERMAN stand and what precaution is it.
DROPLET PRECATION
S- sepsis/scarlet fever/strep throat
P- Pneumonia
I- Influenza
D- diptheria
E- epiglottitis
R- rubella
M- mumps/ meningitis
An- adenovirus