Dirty scopes should be transported out of procedure rooms to scope room in this way
What is in a puncture-resistant container, completely covered, and a with biohazard label?
This is the number one complication of a colonoscopy
What is perforation?
These are the 4 required components of a procedural consent
What is the date, time, right procedure, and signature of both patient and physician?
These items are the proper PPE when reprocessing endoscopes
What are: gowns, gloves, masks, shields/goggles?
This team owns the longest winning streak in NBA history
What is The LA Lakers (33 straight games in the 1971-1972 season)
Scopes can hang for this long before needing reprocessing
What is 15 days?
Celiacs disease is caused by a reaction to this substance
What is gluten?
Epic won't let you verify without completing this documentation during pre-procedure
What is the pre-procedure checklist?
You can read the results this long after dipping the MEC/indication test strip into a cup of processing solution
What is 30 seconds?
This is the hottest planet of the solar system
What is Venus? (460 C)
This item has a wet time of 3 minutes
What is bleach?
This is an infection that is commonly assessed for with a biopsy during an upper endoscopy
What is helicobacter pylori infection?
These are 2 examples of required documentation during the procedure
Universal protocol
Procedure start and stop times
Staff assigned
Therapeutic maneuvers
Supplies used
Reprocessing needs to occur no longer than this amount after pre-cleaning the scope
What is 1 hour?
This is the largest country in South America
What is Brazil?
Staff need to wear this whenever they are in patient-care areas
Masks and eye protection
These are foods patients with GERD should avoid consuming
What is: peppermint, alcohol, caffeinated beverages, chocolate, tea, coffee, citrus
True or False: family members can be used as an interpreter
False
Must use an on-site interpreter or interpreter phone/video
Rapicide expires after this amount of time once opened
What is 21 days?
This author created Sherlock Holmes
Who is Sir Arthur Donan Coyle?
True or False: One observation of non compliance of hand hygiene is a JC citation
True
These are some indications of an EUS
What is:
staging of GI malignancies
evaluating pancreaticobiliary disease
evaluating subepithelial abnormalities
evaluating extraluminal abnormalities
staging of lung cancer
therapeutic EUS.
We ask patients if they've completed this document and, if so, verify whether or not it's in the chart during the pre-procedure interview
What is an advanced directive and/or healthcare proxy?
This is the process when a scope scores less than 100 RLU for the second time
What is: soak for at least 5 mins, manual wash, and repeat ATP test.
This animal has three hearts
What is an octopus?