Chemical Spill Response
The code for a Hazardous Materials Spill.
What is a Code Brown?
In 1874, Henry Woodward invented this, and sold the patent to Thomas Edison.
What is the electric lightbulb?
A severe, acute, noninfectious inflammation of the eye's anterior segment that occurs after eye surgery.
What is TASS?
Dogs can display this emotion when they see their owner be affectionate with another dog.
What is jealousy?
What we do with a steripeel package that has a water mark on it?
What is consider it unsterile and rewrap/resterilize.
This is defined as an uncontrolled release of a hazardous material.
What is a Chemical Spill?
After experiencing over 200 stitches & 4 broken noses, Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens invented this.
What is the goalie mask?
A type of detergent said to cause TASS if it gets into the eye.
What is enzymatic detergent?
A starfish is missing this organ.
What is a brain?
The way sterile items are transported within the hospital.
What is covered or within a closed container?
PPE, Specialty Supplies, Common Supplies & Job Aids are found in this.
What is a Spill Kit?
In 1940, Norman Breakey of Toronto invented this device, which was developed to allowed anyone to paint a wall.
What is a paint roller?
This type of surgery is most often associated with TASS.
What is Cataract Surgery?
This is something that a hummingbird can do that other birds cannot.
What is fly backwards?
The manner in which a package is handled, and its environment effect the what of the package.
What is the sterility of the package?
Operational Cleanup, Spill Clean up, Code Brown are examples of these.
What are the options for cleaning up a Chemical Spill?
In 1923 Frederick Banting discovered this life saving hormone at the UofT, and received a Nobel Prize for the discovery.
What is insulin?
This is one thing we do in copious amounts to try and avoid TASS.
What is flush lumens with sterile water?
A pack of adult cats is called this.
What is a clowder?
The main function of this area is to hold sterile packages in good condition until they are required by a user.
What is the sterile storage area?
Reasons to do this are a Large Volume Spill, a Spill of an Unknown Substance, a Mercury or Pepper Spray Spill, a spill that seeps into an inaccessible area, no trained spill responders are available, and no PPE or clean up supplies are available.
What is call a Code Brown?
This machine invented by a dairy farmer in 1925 in Quebec helped him to deliver milk in the winter.
What is the snow blower?
One of the easiest (and most expensive) ways of attempting to avoid TASS.
What is to use disposable lumened instruments?
Something alligators can do but crocodiles cannot.
What is stick out their tongue?
All supplies must be removed from these before they are brought into the sterile core