INFECTED!
A type of bacteria essential for metabolism (found in the intestinal tract).
What is Escherichia coli (E. coli)?
When two basins are wrapped together for sterilizing, they should be packaged this way..
What is with one basin stacked inside the other and separated by impervious material
Tables draped with sterile drapes are considered sterile at what level?
What is at table Height?
A "V" shaped instrument used to chisel bone
What is a gouge?
Requires a verbal or written order by the surgeon.
What is Hair clipping?
Moving the arms away from the body
What is Adduction?
provide forms of artificial and adaptive immunity
What are Vaccinations?
Black Chromium Finish..
What is used on laser surgery instruments.
The Parts of Your table that are considered sterile.
What is table top, only!
Heavy scissors required to cut fibrous connective tissue.
What are Mayo Scissors?
The most common catheter used for continuous drainage of the bladder during surgery.
Foley Catheter
it is indwelling, meaning, it stays in the patient for a the duration of the surgery and/or the hospital stay.
Nosocomial Infection
an HAI or an infection that is acquired as the result of being in a health care facility or hospital.
Is the most widespread cause of Surgical Site Infections (SSI's)
It normally resides in healthy skin. However, when transmitted to the surgical wound by direct or indirect contact, it can cause an infection.
What is Staphylococcus Aureus (S. Aureus).
This clamp is used specifically in gynecologic surgery to grasp the uterine ligaments.
What is a Heaney clamp?
occurs when water comes in contact with a sterile drape or gown
What is Strike-through contamination?
Instruments used to remodel bone
What are Rasps?
Lying with the abdomen downward, the patient is in the this position.
What is Prone position?
The height of a wave or point of greatest disturbance
What is Amplitude?
It measures how much energy the wave carries. The greater the energy, the greater the sound/light.
a post-operative infection of the surgical wound
What is a Surgical Site Infection?
These instruments enter sterile cavities, such as vascular tissue and have to be sterilized.
What are critical Instruments?
front to front or back to back
How do sterile team members pass each other?
An atraumatic, noncrushing clamp used to manipulate the bowel or fallopian tubes
What is the Babcock?
Do this 1st when prepping the Abdomen..
What is clean the umbilicus with swabs, and then begin at the incision site.
The center of the sterile field during surgery
What is the draped patient?
The sterile field is the area covered by sterile drapes. It includes scrubbed personnel who are gowned and gloved. The draped patient is the center of the sterile field.
Flagellum
The long filament that serves as the means of motility for prokaryotic cell
When used correctly, produce(s) high levels of destruction of both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
What is alcohol-based skin cleaner, foams, and creams
They are Sterile only in the front, from the mid-chest to the table top
What are gowns?
McPherson
What is the self-retaining speculum used to retract the eyelids?
Is used intermittently to drain the bladder once!
What is a Robinson or Straight catheter
(Know both terms)
Amplitude
What is the height of a wave or point of greatest disturbance.
bacteria that cannot live in the presence of O2.
What are anerobes? or anerobic bacteria?
These are the normal ranges of operating temperatures in the gas chamber of the Sterilizer for cold and warm cycles..
from 85° to 100° F for a “cold” cycle and 130° to 145° F for a “warm” cycle
When draping the patient for surgery, once a towel or drape has been placed on the patient, this is NOT allowed.
Not Shifting!
This Equipment uses an intensely hot, precisely focused light beam to cut and coagulate tissue.
What is Laser?
What does the Acronym Laser stand for??
The assisting hand is not allowed to touch these things during foley insertion.
What are sterile items and the catheter, itself.
Which of the following statements is true regarding the technique for placing a Foley catheter?
a. The insertion hand does not contact sterile supplies.
b. The assisting hand does not contact sterile supplies, including the catheter itself.
c. Both hands must remain sterile for the procedure.
d. If the catheter is placed before the prep has been done, it is not done using aseptic technique.
uses ultrasonic waves to measure and record blood-flow, tissue density, and shape.
What is doppler ultrasoud?
This bacteria most frequently causes urinary tract infections.
What is Streptococcus Pneumonia
This is used to sterilize objects that cannot tolerate the heat, moisture, and pressure of steam sterilization (such as Endoscopes).
What is Ethylene Oxide?
This is done when passing through manually operated doors while transporting a patient..
What is open the doors 1st and secure them?
This atraumatic clamp has locking ratchets, but the tips and shanks do not close tightly over the tissue, it is also known as this type of clamp...
What is a partially occluded clamp?
They are prepped with fresh sponges after the surrounding area is prepped.
When do we prep areas that are highly colonized with microorganisms (such as colostomy sites?)
(key word is: after)
These are the two most common injuries associated with unintentional laser exposure
What are Eye injury and skin burn?
A clamp likely used to stop the bleeding of a large vessel.
What is a Kelly clamp (Hemostat)?
Confirms that the package was exposed to sterilization but does not guarantee sterilization.
What is the Chemical Indicator?
This machine/equipment isused on patients having surgery to prevent blood pooling (clotting).
What are Sequential compression devices
The instrument that is likely to be used on an Laminectomy set-up:
Hohman, Kerrison, Mayfield, Bennett
What is a Kerrison Rongeur?
Both legs placed in stirrups simultaneously when placing patient in this position.
What is Lithotomy position?
the following is MOST likely to be in place while transferring a patient from the operating room table to the stretcher
What are the IV tubing and the Foley catheter?