Healthcare abbreviations
Break that Chain
HAIs
Safety
Before/After
100

adip

What is fat?

100

Exit pathway 

What is the way an infectious agent can leave a reservoir host?

100

C. diff

What is the most common HAI

100

PASS

What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep

100

Gastr

What is pertaining to the stomach

200

sphygm

What is pulse.

200

N95 mask

What is used for TB precautions

200

NHSN

What is the National Healthcare Safety Network

200

Class K

What is used on fires involving high temperature cooking oils 

200

phag

What is eat, swallow

300

ABGs

What is arterial blood gases

300

Handwashing

What is one of the most important means of preventing the spread of infection?

300

HICPAC

What is the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

300


What is radiation hazard symbol

300

A-

What is without

400

enchephal

What is brain

400

Gown

What is worn to protect skin and prevent contamination of clothing

400

Nosocomial Infecction

What is infections acquired in the hospital 

400

MSDS

What is material safety data sheet

400

angi

What is vessel

500

kerat

What is hard or cornea

500

Droplet transmission

What is the transfer of an infectious agent to the mucous membranes

500

MRSA

What is methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

500

NFPA

What is the National Fire Protection Association

500

CLSI

What is the organization that writes guidelines for laboratory practices