Safety
Viruses
Medical Contributors
Mayo Core Values
Laboratory Firsts
100

These are the steps for Fire Response

RACE

Relocate persons away from danger.

Activate pull station and phone 911

Contain fire/smoke by closing doors

Extinguish fire if safe to do so

100

A “bullet”-shaped virus that is commonly spread from an infected animal bite

Rabies

100

Hemagglutination, clumping of red blood cells, was originally thought to a disease-linked until Nobel Prize winner Karl Landsteiner discovered these blood groups 

A, B, O, AB

(Rh factors came later)

100

Acronym for Mayo Clinic Values

RICH TIES

100

Dutch spectacle maker Zacharias Janssen, is credited for this magnifying invention, in 1590

Compound microscope

200

In the event of Severe Weather, we should seek shelter in room/corridors with this symbol

Tornado Shelter

200

Genetic material composed of nucleic acids

DNA and RNA

200

Kary B. Mullis won a Nobel Prize in chemistry when he created this technique that makes millions of copies of DNA

PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)

200

Provide the best care, treating patients and family members with sensitivity and empathy

Compassion

200

Created in 1864 by Antonin Prandtl, this laboratory device was first invented to separate cream from milk

Centrifuge

300

This is the number you dial to make an overhead announcement at SDSC

7-3086


300

A protective layer that can be acquired from host cells or the Post Office

Envelope

300

Polish surgeon who used a layer of gauze which is the forerunner to the modern surgical mask

Freiherr von Mikulicz-Radecki

300

The Mayo brothers said "learning never stops" and neither does this Core Value

Innovation (it can take many forms)

300

This common piece of lab equipment created by Heinrich Schnitger increased accuracy and safety moving minute amounts of liquid

Micropipettes

(Prior methods required mouth pipetting)

400

The acronym for an IT outage

Check status

Locate plans

Establish alternatives

Activate plans

Recover data

400

Between 1887 and 1890, Biologist Dmitry Ivanovsky discovered this virus when investigating a leaf-mottling disease of the tobacco plant

Tobacco Mosaic Virus

400

This pioneer in clinical antibiotic research developed a better technique for vaccinating soldiers against smallpox, intradermal vaccination, during WW1

Dr. Louis T. Wright

400

Valuing the contributions of all, blending the skills of individual staff members in unsurpassed collaboration

Teamwork

400

Manfred von Ardenne developed this instrument which uses an electron beam to magnify the surface of an item in high resolution

Scanning Electron Microscope

500

The correct order for Doffing (taking off) your PPE

Doffing (removing):

• Remove gloves first

• Gown/lab coat

• Eye protection

• If wearing a mask or respirator, this should be removed last

500

Entry into the host cell depends on this viral surface projection

Spike protein

500

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is a key player in developing what viral vaccine

COVID-19

500

A Mayo Clinic RICH TIES value shared by Dr. Will, Dr. Charlie, and Aretha Franklin

Respect

500

In the 1970's and 1980's, the company Genentech used recombinant DNA from the E.coli bacterium to create this medicine to treat diabetes

Synthetic "human" insulin