Pioneers & History
This scientist is known as the father of microbiology and immunology.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This federal law protects patient privacy and confidentiality.
What is HIPAA?
The acceptable temperature range in the operating room.
What is 68–75°F?
This medication is added to local anesthetics to prolong their effect.
What is epinephrine?
This hospital code indicates an infant or child abduction.
What is Code Pink?
This Greek philosopher is considered the founder of comparative anatomy.
Who is Aristotle?
Civil wrongs that occur due to negligence rather than intent.
What are unintentional torts?
The acceptable relative humidity range in the OR.
What is 20%–60%?
This medication must be verified three times before administration.
What is the medication name, strength, amount, and expiration date?
This hospital code signals a weapon or hostage situation.
What is Code Silver?
Known as the father of modern anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
The moral obligation of a surgical technologist to maintain sterile technique even when unobserved.
What is surgical conscience?
This ventilation system provides filtered, unidirectional airflow from ceiling to floor.
What is laminar flow?
This drug is administered to treat malignant hyperthermia.
What is dantrolene?
The process of sorting patients by injury severity during a disaster.
What is triage?
This technique, developed by Joseph Lister, greatly reduced surgical infections.
What is aseptic technique?
A choice made based on moral principles and values when facing a dilemma.
What is an ethical decision?
These should remain closed in the OR to maintain sterility and reduce contamination.
What are cabinets and doors?
The correct sequence of the four phases of general anesthesia.
What are induction, maintenance, emergence, and recovery?
A serious bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani.
What is tetanus?
Modern surgery became possible only after advances were made in these two critical areas.
What are anesthesia and infection control?
This AHA document outlines patients’ rights and responsibilities during hospitalization.
What is the Patient Care Partnership?
The three OR design zones created to reduce contamination and improve efficiency.
What are unrestricted, semi-restricted, and restricted areas?
This 1970 federal act regulates the manufacture and distribution of controlled substances.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
The difference between a primary infection and a secondary infection.
What is an initial infection versus a subsequent opportunistic infection?