The Clean room Environment
An air quality classification from the International Organization for Standardization; the lower this number, the cleaner the air.
What is ISO?
A device used to filter over 99.97% of particulate matter from the air.
What is a HEPA filter?
These IV solutions are greater than 250 mL and often contain electrolytes or nutrients.
What are LVPs/Large Volume Parenterals?
The complete absence of pathogenic microorganisms?
What is Asepsis?
A chemical agent like 70% IPA used to destroy fungi and bacteria on inanimate surfaces.
What is a Disinfectant?
An ISO Class 8 room where hand washing, garbing, and gathering of supplies occur.
What is the Anteroom?
This PEC provides an ISO Class 5 environment and is often called a "laminar hood."
What is a Horizonal Laminar Air Flow Workbench?
This type of tubing is used for pediatric patients and delivers 60 drops per mL.
What is Microdrip IV Tubing?
A regional, widespread outbreak of a contagious disease.
What is an Epidemic?
This process uses chemicals, heat, or pressure to kill all microogranisms, including spores.
What is Sterilization?
This term describes air being blown into a room so that the net airflow moves out of the area to prevent contamination.
What is Positive Pressure?
A device that uses high heat and pressure to kill microorganisms on vessels or instruments.
What is an Autoclave?
A small-volume parenteral infusion (50–250 mL) that is attached to a primary IV line.
What is an IVPB or IV Piggyback?
Bacteria that have become resistant to standard antibiotic therapies.
What are Super Bugs?
This occurs wherever filtered air meets resistance, such as between the technician and the compounding counter.
What is the Zone of Turbulence?
An ISO Class 7 area where PECs are located; also known as the IV room.
What is the Buffer Room?
This method of purification involves boiling a liquid and capturing the steam back into a liquid form.
What is Distillation?
This part of the IV set allows a nurse to see and count the drops to determine flow rate.
What is the Drip Chamber?
A life-threatening condition where the immune system attacks the body's own organs in response to an infection.
What is Sepsis?
An aggressive hand-washing procedure followed by an antiseptic agent before donning sterile attire.
What is Aseptic Hand Washing?
These represent the number of times per hour that the total volume of air in a room is replaced.
What are Air Exchanges?
The specific part of a syringe or needle that must never be touched or have its airflow blocked.
What is a Critical Site?
The slide clamp used to completely stop the flow of an IV solution.
What is an Auxiliary Clamp?
Inflammation of a vein, often caused by the administration of certain drugs.
What is Phlebitis?
The general term for the mainuplation of sterile products to avoid contamination by diseaase-causing orgranisms.
What is Aseptic Technique?