LET'S SHAKE THINGS UP
What is AAMI? or ANSI / AAMI?
Created by Dr. Charles Horrace Mayo, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, and a Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at the start of WWI, this instrument is used for cutting and dissecting tissue.
What are Mayo Scissors?
CABG
What is Coronary artery bypass graft?
Rules issued by administrative agencies that have the force of law.
What are Regulations?
This method is most commonly used for packing small instruments and lightweight items.
What is Peel Packing?
Running your ultrasonic for a short period after the introduction of an enzymatic agent.
What is degassing?
This instrument was invented by Dr. Myron Metzenbaum, and Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, OH and is used in cutting delicate tissue and blunt dissection.
What are Metzenbaum Scissors?
TEE
What is an Transesophageal Echocardiogram?
The FDA process of scientific and regulatory review to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Class III medical devices.
What is Premarket approval (PMA)?
This is used to show that an item was exposed to a sterilization process.
What is an external indicator?
Process used by an ultrasonic cleaner in which low pressure bubbles in a cleaning solution burst inward to dislodge soil from instruments.
What is "Cavitation?"
Instruments made of this grade of steel do not readily bend or flex while in use?
What is 400 series stainless steel?
I & D
What is an Incision and Drainage?
A uniform method of defining basic parameters for processes, products, services, and measurements.
What is a Standard?
This class II chemical indicator should be run daily in dynamic air removal sterilizers.
What is a Bowie Dick test?
These three metals should not be mixed with stainless steel instruments during an ultrasonic cycle as they may interact and damage instruments.
What are Brass, Aluminum and Copper?
Sometimes having up to eight prongs (or more), this instrument was designed by Dr. Richard von Volkmann, a German surgeon who pioneered antiseptic procedures and was regarded as one of the fathers of orthopedic surgery.
What is a Volkmann Retractor or (Rake)?
D & C
What is Dilation and Curettage?
Following these when processing instruments will ensure each step of the process is done correctly.
What are Instructions for Use or IFUs?
What is "A positive Result" or Positive BI?
This word describes the spiderweb cracking of glass and plastics under chemical stress in an ultrasonic process.
What is Craze?
Though not clear which side is which, this retractor shares the name of two military branches of service.
What is an Army-Navy or USA / US Army Retractor?
TURP
What is Transurethral Resection of the Prostate?
Voluntary guidelines representing a consensus of this organizations members that are intended for use by healthcare facilities and manufacturers to help ensure that medical instrumentation is safe for patient use.
What are AAMI standards?
Though used as a last resort, this process is used when one-of-a-kind instruments require urgent sterilization.
What is Immediate Use Steam Sterilization or (IUSS).