Introduction to Sterile Processing
_______ to ________ to ________ is the sterile processing work-flow
What is soiled, clean, sterile
This is where the majority of medical terms originate from.
A system created to describe different body part positions and locations.
What is anatomical position?
The state of being soiled by contact with infectious organisms or other material.
What is contamination?
Process by which pink and purple coloring is used to classify bacteria.
These procedures are performed using smaller incisions, less tissue damage and bleeding, less pain, and minimal scarring.
What is Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)?
These elements make up the anatomy of medical terms.
What are prefix, root, and suffix?
Nearer to the point of origin or to a reference point.
What is proximal?
These are the three common shapes of bacteria.
What is spherical (coccus), rod (bacillus), and spiral (spirilla)?
The functional center of a cell that governs activity and heredity.
What is the nucleus?
The first step in the sterilization process.
What is cleaning?
Used to ease the pronunciation of root words.
What is a Combining vowel?
The process by which cartilage is replaced by bone.
What is ossification?
This microorganism depends on air, water, inspects, humans or other animals to carry it from one host to another.
What is a virus?
Surgical opening into the skull.
What is a craniotomy?
Implies that all patients are presumed infectious to reduce the transmission of bloodborne and other pathogens.
What is Standard Precautions?
Suffix surgical removal.
What is ectomy?
The middle ear contains these three bones.
What are the malleus, incus and stapes?
This infectious particle is frequently found in the brain, dura mater and eyes.
What is prion?
Information provided by a device manufacturer that provides detailed instructions on use and processing.
What is an IFU (instruction for use)?
Maintaining professional conduct and standards and adapting to changing situations.
What are employability skills?
Prefix meaning beside, near.
What is para?
Cystoscopy is a procedure involving this body system.
What is the urinary system?
These organisms have three major roles:
Turn dead organic matter into useable substances through decay and mildew; have mutually symbiotic relationships with other organisms; be parasitic or pathogenic to plants or animals.
What are fungi?
These are the three types of muscle tissue.
What is skeletal, smooth and cardiac?