Healthcare abbreviations
Break that Chain
HAIs
Safety
Before/After
100
adip
What is fat?
100
Exit pathway
What is the way an infectious agent can leave a reservoir host?
100
C. diff
What is the most common HAI
100
PASS
What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep
100
Gastr
What is pertaining to the stomach
200
sphygm
What is pulse.
200
N95 mask
What is used for TB precautions
200
NHSN
What is the National Healthcare Safety Network
200
Class K
What is used on fires involving high temperature cooking oils
200
phag
What is eat, swallow
300
ABGs
What is arterial blood gases
300
Handwashing
What is one of the most important means of preventing the spread of infection?
300
HICPAC
What is the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
300
What is radiation hazard symbol
300
A-
What is without
400
enchephal
What is brain
400
Gown
What is worn to protect skin and prevent contamination of clothing
400
Nosocomial Infecction
What is infections acquired in the hospital
400
MSDS
What is material safety data sheet
400
angi
What is vessel
500
kerat
What is hard or cornea
500
Droplet transmission
What is the transfer of an infectious agent to the mucous membranes
500
MRSA
What is methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
500
NFPA
What is the National Fire Protection Association
500
CLSI
What is the organization that writes guidelines for laboratory practices