Intro to SP
PPE's are required when working in this area of the SP department.
What is decontamination?
Latin term meaning immediately or at once.
What is STAT?
Toward the front or belly surface
What is anterior?
Microorganisms necessary for the existence of humans, plants, and animals
What are bacteria?
Process or ability to kill or control the growth of living organisms
What is biocidal?
A program designed for the voluntary reporting of device related problems.
What is MedWatch?
Tissue, body fat, blood and other body substances.
What is gross soil?
Temperature and humidity monitors are based on....
What is ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE 170?
These are the functional areas within the SPD?
What is decontamination, preparation and packaging, sterilization, and sterile storgage/distribution?
Meaning of -oscopy
What is visual examination?
Circular opening that controls light entering the eye.
What is the pupil?
The typical method of bacterial reproduction
What is binary fission
An infection that occurs after surgery in the part of the body where surgery took place.
What is Surgical site infection (SSI)?
Sterilizer equipment, BI's and CI's are associated with this FDA device class.
What is Class II?
Decontamination begins here.
Point of use
Should be used to view the internal surfaces of lumened and channeled instruments.
What is a borescope?
The removal of all visible and non-visible soils and any other foreign material from medical devices being processed.
What is cleaning?
Medical term of kidney
What is nephros?
A group of organs that work together to carry out a specific activity
What is a body system?
Ringworm and athlete's foot are common examples of this microorganism.
What is fungi?
The most important factor in reducing infections
What is hand hygiene?
Agency responsible for minimizing greenhouse gases, toxic emissions, regulating the reuse of solid waste, controlling indoor air pollution, and developing and enforcing chemical regulations
Who is the EPA?
A collection of microorganisms that attach to surfaces and each other forming a colony that is difficult to penetrate with detergents and disinfectants.
What is biofilm?
These are the three major types of critical water.
What is Reverse osmosis (ro), deionized water (di), and distilled water?
A list of specific supplies, utensils, and instruments for a specific procedure.
What is a case cart pull sheet (picklist)
-pexy is an example of this word element
What is a suffix?
Band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue
What is fascia?
Can cause disease by producing powerful toxins that interfere with how body systems work.
What are pathogens?
Routinely traveled traffic control/ dress code categories.
What is Restricted, Semi-restricted, Unrestricted?
This organization publishes standards and TIRs, which address functions including cleaning, sterilization, packaging, and equipment testing.
What is AAAMI?
Injuries or disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, joints, cartilage, and spinal discs.
What are musculoskeletal disorders?
Air that must be free of oil, water, hydrocarbons and other contaminates that can cause infection.
What is instrument air?
Infections that develop in a patient on or after day three of admission to a healthcare facility.
What is a healthcare-associated infection (HAI)?
Instruments used to lift tissue and expose bone.
What is a periosteal elevator?
This yellowish liquid makes up 55% of blood
What is plasma?
Entamoeba histolytica decribes the most frequently encountered...
What is protozoa?
The transmission of infectious agents requires six elements catergorized as....
What is the chain of infection?
The Joint Commission is considered an ___________
agency.
What is Accreditation?
These principles can help avoid workplace injuries
What are Ergonomic principles?
Use of heat to reduce the amount of microorganisms (excluding spores) on a medical device.
What is thermal disinfection?