Fire Safety
The oxidizing source, ignition source, and fuel source.
What are the three components of the fire triangle?
During fluoroscopy, the minimum safe distance from the radiation source to stand.
It is the part of the body most vulnerable to injury from a laser.
What are the eyes?
Where the active electrode should be placed when not in use.
What is in the holster?
This Organization created National Patient Safety Goals to promote specific improvements in patient safety.
What is the Joint Commission?
Oxygen and nitrous oxide are examples of this component of the fire triangle.
What is oxidizing source?
The guiding principle for radiation safety is _______ (Hint: 5 letter acronym).
What is ALARA- As Low As Reasonably Achievable?
Required element of PPE for ALL therapies involving LASER.
What are Laser Safety Glasses?
The pad that is applied to a patient to carry electrical current flow from the patient back to the power unit is known as the ___________________.
What is dispersive electrode?
This is the protocol whose goal is to eliminate wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person surgery.
What is Universal Protocol?
Gauze sponges are an example of this component of the fire triangle.
What is fuel source?
The side of the fluoroscopy unit you should stand on to decrease exposure.
What is the image intensifier side?
LASER is an acronym that stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of ___________.
What is Radiation?
In this type of electrosurgery is the current confined to the tissue between the poles of the instrument?
What is bipolar?
The space within which the level of the direct, reflected, or scattered radiation may exceed the applicable maximum permissible exposure level (MPE).
The electrosurgery pencil is an example of this component of the fire triangle.
What is ignition source?
The dosimeter should be worn at this location when not in the sterile field.
What is the center of the collar?
The LASER should be in this mode when not in active use.
What is Standby?
The only time a scrub person can activate the energy device.
What is during the testing of the device before the procedure has begun?
When tissue is destroyed or incised by electrocautery or LASER it creates this toxic smoke.
The R in Race stands for _____________.
What is Rescue?
These are the three principles that are used to reduce the amount of exposure when working around radiation are time, distance, and ___________?
What is shielding?
A matte finish applied to metal surgical instruments to decrease reflectivity.
What is anodized?
Active electrode burns can occur when current travels from a break in an instrument’s insulation through a metal object it is contacting.
What is direct coupling?
These are the three different categories of errors that can be made: Knowledge-based, Skill-based, and ____________.