Chapter 1&2
What does IAHCSMM stand for?
International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management
What system is a vast communication network that carries messages between all parts of the body?
Nervous System
What agency is responsible for ensuring that medical devices are safe and effective for public use?
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Where does instrument cleaning begin?
Point of Use.
What does HAI stand for?
Healthcare Associated Infection
What is the first step in the sterilization process?
Cleaning
What system adapts to changes in the environment with the help of hormones?
Endocrine System
What agency works to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease?
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
What is the best way to transport soiled instruments?
Enclosed Carts
This agency writes the standards for CS/SPD.
What is AAMI?
What is the physical or chemical process that renders an inanimate object safe for further handling?
Decontamination
What are the smallest microorganisms called?
Viruses
Its primary role and responsibility is to protect workers from work related injuries and illnesses?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
What does AAMI stand for?
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
What is a craniotomy?
Making an opening into the skull bone to access the brain
Microorganisms that can cause illness are called?
Pathogens
Name all of the components in the chain of infection.
Causative agent, Reservoir, Portal of Exit, Mode of Transmission, Portal of Entry, and Susceptible Host
What is a water purification process by which a solvent, such as water, is removed of impurities after being forced through a semipermeable membrane.
Reverse Osmosis (RO)
What is a nephrectomy?
Removal of a kidney
The single most effective way to prevent the spread of diisease is this.
What is hand washing?
What is an inanimate object that can transmit bacteria called?
Fomite
What is the process used by an ultrasonic cleaner in which low-pressure bubbles in a cleaning solution burst inward and dislodge soil from instruments?
Cavitation
What is an acute postoperative inflammatory reaction in which a noninfectious substance enters the anterior segment and induces toxic damage to the intraocular tissues?
Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS)