Infection Prevention
Using appropriate barriers to prevent infection; treating everything as though it were contaminated regardless of patient diagnosis.
What is Standard Precautions?
A type of sterilizer that must be manually refilled with sterile water before use.
What is a Tabletop Sterilizer?
Items to be processed in HLD must undergo this process first.
What is cleaning and decontamination?
A list of expectations, requirements, and responsibilities provided by an employer.
What is a job description?
These instruments are used to dissect tissues and may have tungsten carbide to improve their durability.
What are scissors?
Completely free of all living microorganisms.
What is sterile?
This steam cycle type uses the natural weight of both water and air to move a sterilization cycle from one phase to the next.
What is Gravity?
These disinfectants have a contact time of at least 5 minutes.
What are alcohols?
A group of providers that coordinates care for a given community.
What is an IDN?
This type of steel is heat-hardened, durable, and magnetic.
What is Martensitic or 400 series?
The absence of pathogenic microorganisms.
What is Asepsis?
This phase in a steam sterilization cycle is where the act of sterilization occurs.
What is exposure?
Devices are categorized according to the risk of infection associated with the usage.
What is the Spaulding Classification System?
The entry-level certification obtained by SPD technicians through HSPA.
What is a CRCST?
This method of instrument identification is typically used by instrument manufacturers and is the most durable of them all.
What is laser etching?
A person who is infected with a disease but does not experience any symptoms and is able to transmit that disease to others.
What is a carrier?
This part of a steam sterilizer acts as a containment unit for items to be sterilized.
What is the chamber?
These types of devices must be processed with sterilization.
What are critical devices?
What is PPE?
Bone cutters, rongeurs, and nail-nippers should all be tested using this.
What are index cards?
Microbes are typically found in their vegetative state at this point in the Chain of Infection.
What is the reservoir?
Steam that has evaporated before it could make contact with items in the load.
What is Superheated steam?
These two disinfectants are also categorized as halogens.
What are chlorine and iodophores?
A surgical method that delivers improved recovery times and minimizes trauma to the body.
What is minimally invasive surgery?
These types of instruments are used to widen naturally occurring openings in the body.
What are speculums?