Worn to protect the operative area from airborne contamination produced by everyone during breathing.
What is a mask
100
Multipurpose table that is used both as a sterile field when covered and uncovered can be used to hold paperwork, specimen containers, scales or other items.
What is a Prep table or Utility table
100
Is the foundation of all that goes on in the operating room. Failure to practice this properly puts the patient at great risk of infection.
What is Aseptic Technique.
100
Attached to the side of the bed to support the patient's outstretched arms.
What are armboards.
100
Most common and economical method of sterilization.
What is Steam sterilization?
200
Disposable lint free item designed to reduce contamination from hair and dander.
What is a surgical hat or cap
200
Designed to provide a concentrated beam of light into the surgical field.
What are Surgical Spotlights
200
Should not be worn in the OR because of the potential for microbes and also because it could fall into the surgical wound.
What is jewelry.
200
Attached to the head of the operating table when patient is to be placed in Trendelenburg position (head down position).
What are Shoulder braces.
200
Two types of Steam sterilization
What are Gravity Displacement and Prevacuum?
300
Heavy covering worn by OR personnel when X-Ray is in use
What is a lead apron
300
Can be single or double, used to hold basins sterile or unsterile.
What is a ring stand
300
Is considered absolute
What is sterility.
300
Used to support the patient's torso in a flexed, prone position during lumbar surgery.
What is a Wilson Frame.
300
Used to quickly resterilize an item that has become contaminated but is needed to finish the surgical procedure.
What is flash sterilization?
400
Must cover from the top of the eyebrows to the top of the surgical mask while protecting the sides of the face along the temples.
What is eye protection
400
Recepticle for saturated sponges removed from the sterile field by the Surgical Technologists so that the Circulating nurse can retrieve them without contaminating the sterile field.
What is a kick bucket.
400
Non sterile persons should not walk between two of these.
What are sterile fields.
400
Must be properly padded to prevent damage to the popliteal nerve during short arthroscopy or cystoscopy procedures.
What are Knee crutch stirrups.
400
the Steris system is this type of sterilization
What is Cold Chemical Sterilization?
500
All items worn in the OR for the Protection of both the personnel and the patient is called
What is PPE or Personal Protective Equipment
500
Used to hold instruments that need to be readily available during a surgical procedure, must be covered with a sterile drape and is placed over the patient at the sterile field.
What is a Mayo Stand.
500
The ethical motivation to practice proper aseptic technique.
What is Surgical conscience
500
Operating table that has interchangeable accessories for cervical, thoracic and lumbar surgical procedures.
What is a Jackson Table.
500
Items that cannont withstand heat, pressure or moisture may be sterilized with this method.