Surgery Dept
This plan places ORs around a central clean core
What is the racetrack plan?
Area where street clothes are allowed
What is unrestricted area?
Three keys to radiation safety
What are time, shielding, and distance?
Treat all fluids as infectious
What are Standard Precautions?
Most common sharps injury source
What are needles and scalpels?
This design groups ORs by specialty like neuro or general surgery
What is the specialty grouping plan?
Requires scrubs and hair covering
What is semi-restricted area?
Device used to cut/coagulate tissue electrically
What is an ESU or Bovie?
Severe, life-threatening latex reaction
What is Type I hypersensitivity?
Wearing two gloves reduces this risk
What is sharps injury/exposure?
Main goal of separating clean and dirty areas
What is preventing surgical site infections (SSI)?
Masks required in this area
What is restricted area?
Three parts of the fire triangle
What are oxygen, fuel, and ignition?
Smoke from cauterized tissue
What is a surgical plume?
Never do this with a needle
What is recapping?
This department sterilizes instruments
What is the sterile processing department
Where patient prep occurs before surgery
What is preoperative holding?
Fire response acronym
What is RACE?
Best method to remove plume
What is a smoke evacuator?
Safe passing method for sharps
What is neutral zone?
Ideal location of surgery department
What is limited traffic and restricted public access?
Where patient recovers after anesthesia
What is PACU?
Fire extinguisher use acronym
What is PASS?
Minimum distance for plume evacuation effectiveness
What is 1 centimeter?
First action after sharps injury
What is wash immediately and report?