Surgery Department
This plan places ORs around a central clean core
Three keys to radiation safety
What are time, shielding, and distance?
Treat all fluids as infectious
What are Standard Precautions?
Most common sharps injury source
What are needles and scalpels?
Bag color for infectious waste
What is red biohazard bag?
This design groups ORs by specialty like neuro or general surgery
What is the specialty grouping plan?
Device used to cut/coagulate tissue electrically
What is an ESU or Bovie?
Severe, life-threatening latex reaction
What is Type I hypersensitivity?
Wearing two gloves reduces this risk
What is sharps injury/exposure?
Escaped vapors from anesthesia machine
What are waste anesthetic gases?
Main goal of separating clean and dirty areas
What is preventing surgical site infections (SSI)?
Three parts of the fire triangle
What are oxygen, fuel, and ignition?
Smoke from cauterized tissue
What is surgical plume?
Never do this with a needle
What is recapping?
Bone cement used in ortho surgery
What is PMMA?
This department sterilizes instruments
What is CSPD?
Fire response acronym
What is RACE?
Best method to remove plume
What is a smoke evacuator?
Safe passing method for sharps
What is neutral zone?
Tissue preservative chemical
What is formalin?
Ideal location of the surgery department
What is limited traffic and restricted public access?
Fire extinguisher use acronym
What is PASS?
Minimum distance for plume evacuation effectiveness
What is 1 centimeter?
First action after sharps injury
What is wash immediately and report?
Sterilization gas that is carcinogenic
What is ethylene oxide?