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Sterilization
Pathogens
Minor Office Surgery
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Potpourri( a bit of everything)
100
This method kills all microorganisms, including spores.
What is autoclave?
100
These are the smallest disease microorganisms.
What are viruses?
100
The direction you remove adhesive closures or sutures and the reason.
What is toward the suture line to prevent tension on the suture line?
100
This anesthesia depresses the central nervous system and causes loss of consciousness.
What is general anesthesia?
100
A wound with: a ragged edge, a surgical cut, with tissue rubbed off.
What is a laceration, an incision, and an abrasion?
200
This is the order of infection control from lowest to highest.
What is sanitization, disinfection, sterilization
200
Microorganisms that grow best in an oxygenated environment.
What are aerobic microorganisms?
200
During surgery: one holds back the edges of tissue, one is used to cut tissue, one has 2 prongs for grasping, and one is able to lock in position.
What are retractors, scalpels, forceps, and ratchets.
200
The reason you always cut the suture material as close to the skin as possible.
What is to prevent contamination of the underlying tissue.
200
The amount of healing time needed, the strength of the suture needed, and the location of the wound.
What are things that determine suture size?
300
This indicates that a pack has been exposed to the sterilization process. (2 part answer)
What is the reason a sterilization strip changes color and the main reason a sterilization strip is used?
300
In the chain of infection, a person that may become infected because of their overall lack of general health.
What is a susceptible host?
300
This long handled instrument has a metal loop on one end to scrap out the inside of a body cavity that may be sharp or smooth on the edge of the loop.
What is a curette?
300
Serous, sanguineous, serosanguineos, and purulent.
What are types of drainage; as follows: serum, bloody, serum and blood, and pus filled :o( YUCK!
300
The type of suture used to pierce through tissue.
What is sharp (cutting and reverse cutting)suture needles?
400
This is the most important procedure you can do to prevent the spread of microorganisms.
What is washing your hands?
400
Disease causing microorganisms.
What are pathogens?
400
Adequate blood supply to the area, patient's nutritional and overall health.
What are things that affect wound healing.
400
Primary, secondary, and tertiary.
What are wound classifications?
400
Supply workers with MSDS sheets, using OSHA's hazard communication standard, and making the workplace safer.
What are all parts of the "right to know" law?
500
Don't reach over, don't turn you back, you are sterile from the front of your body,waist up, don't talk unnecessarily, don't move around too much.
What are guidelines for preventing contamination of a sterile field?
500
Thick hard shells, or capsules, that form over bacteria...these are the hardest to kill.
What are spores?
500
This is used with local anesthetic to constrict the local blood vessels.
What is epinephrine?
500
The fastest dissolving suture material.
What is cat gut?
500
What the -0 means in suture material.
What is the number of zeros in the size of the suture material? ie: 4-0 means 4 times smaller than 0.