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Vocabulary
Establishing a Sterile Field. T or F!
Adding Items To A Sterile Field
Prepping For A Sterile Field
Aseptic Technique
100
This is retained in the bladder by a balloon inflated with air or fluid.
What is Foley Catheter?
100
When confirming if a package is sterile, it needs to be clean and dry but it is okay if it has been previously opened.
What is False? It cannot be previously opened.
100
T or F. You can introduce non-disposable items to a sterile field.
What is True?
100
Concerning surgical scrubbing techniques; a timed scrub consisting of scrubbing the sides of the fingers, between the fingers, and back and front of hands should take ___ minutes. Scrubbing the arms up to ___ inches above the elbow should be done for ___ minutes.
What is 3 minutes; 3 inches; 1 minute?
100
This is the color in which you see that means do not touch it.
What is blue?
200
This describes a product or method that is free of microbiological organisms.
What is Aseptic?
200
Place package on center of table/surface area.
What is True?
200
When adding a non-disposable item to a sterile field, you avoid contamination of the field by holding the ______ of the outer wrap while dropping the item onto the tray.
What is corners?
200
The rule for hand washing is to keep your hands ______ elbows and for surgical scrubbing to keep your hands ________ elbows at all times.
What is below elbows ; above elbows?
200
This is the technique used for reapplication of dressings on a patient.
What is sterile technique?
300
This is free of living microorganisms.
What is Sterile?
300
You always reach over the table, not around it.
What is False? Always around the table. Never directly over it.
300
When adding a liquid medium to a sterile field, you should always place the cap of the liquid container on the _______ field.
What is unsterile?
300
When in sterile gowns, this is how persons must pass one another.
What is back to back?
300
Another name for Intravenous line is ________. Another name for Intra-arterial line is ________.
What is central venous ; arterial lines?
400
Accumulation of air or gas in the pleural space, which may occur spontaneously or as a result of trauma or a pathologic process or which may be introduced deliberately.
What is Pneumothorax?
400
Pinch the first flap and pull it open laying it flat on the surface closest to you.
What is False? It should be furthest away from you.
400
A ________ border at the perimeter is a "buffer zone" and is treated as if it were ________.
What is 1 inch; contaminated?
400
When getting into a sterile gown, only the sleeves and the front of the gown from the ______ up are considered sterile.
What is waist?
400
This is used to remove fluid, blood, and air rom the pleural cavity.
What is chest tubes?
500
Technical term for listening to the internal sounds of the body; usually with a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?
500
Use your left hand to open the right flap and right hand to open the left flap.
What is False? Left hand for left flap, vice versa.
500
When pouring a liquid medium onto a sterile field, it is very important to pour with the label facing _____ to ensure the label is not ______.
What is uppermost; obscured?
500
When donning sterile gloves with an open technique, you open the package taking care not to contaminate the gloves. You pick up the first glove by its _____ cuff and slide the glove onto the opposite hand. You pick up the second glove by the _____ cuff and slide it onto your opposite hand.
What is inside ; outside?
500
Name the 3 types of C-arms that are used in surgery.
What is snap cover, shower curtain, and stop-gap.