abbreviations
PPE
What is personal protective equipment?
Edema
What is swelling?
1:10
What is the ratio for bleach to water used to clean blood spills?
When considering these 18 is larger than 22.
What is needle gauge?
Document listing tests to draw and special instructions.
What is a requisition?
OPIM
What is other potentially infectious materials?
percutaneous
Per que taineous
What is through the skin?
This can survive 7 days in dried blood.
What is hepatitis B?
Slanted tip of needle.
What is bevel?
Most common phlebotomy complication.
What is hematoma.
SDS
What is safety data sheet?
Diaphoresis die uh for re sis
What is Excessive sweating?
10 minutes
Maximum safe capacity for a sharps container.
2/3 to 3/4 full.
Used needles, lancets, syringes, glass. But not gauze or gloves even when contaminated.
What belongs in a sharps container?
QA
What is Quality assurance?
A condition that can cause swelling due to removal of lymph nodes.
What is lymphedema?
15 minutes
What is the amount of time to rinse/wash after an accidental exposure?
The standard needle gauges for drawing blood.
What are 21,22,23?
Small non raised red dots caused by bleeding under skin.
What is petechiae? (Pa teek e eye)
TTGC
What is Tourniquet Tube Gauze Cap?
Surgically created connection between an artery and a vein.
What is a fistula?
Antiseptic used when blood cultures or alcohol levels are drawn.
What is chlorhexidine? Clor hex a dean
1 to 1.5 inches.
What is the standard length for venipuncture needles?
The proper order for putting on PPE.
What is gown mask googles gloves?