You Want Me to Clean What?
You are performing a vaginal/perineal prep, which area is prepped first?
What is the vaginal area?
Whis color clipper head is used for general purpose clipping.
What is the purple/blue head.
Your surgeon has used all of the exposed filament in his/her LASER Cable. Your next step is to . . .
What is obtain another Fiber Optic Cable for the surgeon.
What is the first acronym you think of when you hear Local Anesthesia Systemic Toxicity.
What is LAST
Dr. Tatsumi likes to use me to mark the appropriate cervical level for his xray.
What is a paperclip
CHG is a shortened version of this cleaning agent?
What is Chlorhexidine Gluconate
CareFusion clippers can be used on dry or wet skin. You know that the advantage of clipping on wet skin is . . .
What is to help prevent the dispersal of skin cells and their hairs.
What type of cases do we typically use an outside LASER vendor for?
What are Urology cases.
1 in every 1,000 persons who receives a peripheral block may experience a systemic absorption of an excessive amount of local anesthetic thus putting them at risk for what?
What is a LAST episode.
I am a surgical procedure used to release abnormal tissue connections in the abdominal viscera layers.
What is lysis of adhesions
You start your prep at this area and progress to this area when performing a basic surgical procedure prep.
What is Incision site to the Periphery.
It is permissible to get the CareFusion handle wet. You know the best way to clean the handle is with these cleaning agent(s).
What is soap and water.
The letters in the acronym LASER stand for this . . .
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
We have one departmental Lipid Rescue Kit to treat a LAST episode. As most reactions develop approximately 10 minutes after injection, you know that our LIPID Rescue Kit lives here.
What is in the bottom drawer of the block cart in PACU.
Your intestines decided to telescope within itself, yet they are not able to see into outer space. What is this condition called?
What is Intussusception
The 2 consequences of using reusable or disposable sterile towels to absorb drips/pools and the wicking away of excess solutions.
What is minimizing the risk of fire and skin breakdown.
You are a hair clipping aficionado! When clipping a patient for surgery you know what direction the shaver should move in relation to your body and what the correct amount of pressure should be to provide the safest experience for the patient.
What is move the clippers away from your body while using gentle (just enough) pressure.
You know there are at several tasks that must be completed to prepare a room for a LASER case. Name (3) of those tasks . . .
What is cover the windows, have LASER-rated goggles for each person and the patient in the room, pour fluid on the backtable.
What, How, Where and Who receives blocks are important factors in determining what:
What are a patient's chances of developing LAST.
Classic signs of this disease are Weight Loss, Night Sweats, a Low-Grade Fever. What is the name of this droplet spread respiratory disease?
Tuberculosis
You are prepping a bring-back Open Exploratory Lap patient. How do you prep the skin that is different from a Basic Surgical Procedure prep?
What is prep the area with the lower bacterial count first before prepping the area of higher contamination.
There are 3 basic steps to correctly clipping a patient's hair for surgery. They include . . .
What is 1) Stretch the skin, 2) Rest clipper on skin at a 65-degree angle, 3) Clip hair against the grain.
The Nominal Hazard Zone in LASER cases is a defined space around a Laser where direct, reflected or scattered LASER radiation exceeds the Maximum Permissible Exposure. Where is the Nominal Hazard Zone during our Laser cases?
What is the entire OR room.
There are several LAST Signs and Symptoms that can typically occur after 10 minutes. Can you name (3) of them?
What are Tonic Clonic Seizure, Apnea, Muscle Twitching, Perioral Numbness/Tingling, Metallic Taste, Diplopia, Tinnitus, Lightheadedness, Confusion/Drowsiness, Sense of Impending Doom, Excitation.
I am a type of hernia, that is often congenital, and results from the failure of a deep internal ring closure.
What is an Indirect Hernia