Infection Prevention
This term is used to describe outlining the surgical incision with sterile towels.
What is "Squaring-off"?
These two tools were developed for perioperative patients to identify pressure injury risks
What are Munro Scale and the Scott Triggers Tool
Hyperextension of the patient's neck for prolonged periods of time can result in this injury.
What is brachial plexus nerve injury?
A commonly used scale for determining when patients can be safely discharged from the PACU to either the postsurgical unit or second stage recovery area.
What is the Aldrete Score?
The patient's identity, procedure and procedural site including laterality must be verified and the site marked.
The site marking is required by this agency.
What is Centers for Medical and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
A sterile, single-use adhesive covering that is placed by sterile team members over the surgical incision after the preoperative skin antisepsis has been performed.
What is incise drape?
When a patient's body is dragged across the OR bed linen, it can produce this type of injury.
What is a friction injury?
Intracranial hypertension is one of the physiological effects of this position.
What is Trendelenburg position?
The specialty organization for RNs working in the perianesthesia areas
What is ASPAN? American society of Perianesthesia Nurses
This agency developed Universal Protocol to provide guidance for prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery.
Who is The Joint Commission?
Before inserting a central venous catheter, the provider should do the following
What is put on a mask, perform skin prep, put on a sterile gown and gloves and drape the patient using a full-body drape?
When documenting implants, the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) must be recorded when
What is time of implantation and at time of removal if available.
This surgical position has an increased risk of rhabdomyolosis and compartment syndrome.
What is the lateral position?
Post op phone calls are made within this time frame.
What is 24 to 48 hours?
This agency's report identified the following:
To prevent errors, a safer system need to be designed.
When errors occur, the system needs to be examined
Standardization of processes can improve safety
Who is the Institute of Medicine (IOM)?
[As a result of the report, the culture of individual blame began a shift to the study of system errors]
An infections that involves the fascial and muscle layers develop within this time frame.
What is 30 to 90 days after the procedure?
Facilities must have the manufacture's IFU available. The IFU may be electronic or may be stored in one of these three areas.
What is the biomedical engineering department, the sterile processing department or the perioperative services department?
This type of suture is used in deep tissues and tissue that heal rapidly.
What is absorbable suture?
The difference in health between groups.
What is health disparity?
This organization focuses on health care quality and safety and grades hospitals on preventable errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
Who is the Leapfrog Group
A technique for donning sterile gloves during which the gown sleeve of the team member being gloved is pulled up so the gown cuff is at the writ level leaving the fingers and hand exposed.
What is open assisted gloving?
A facility must report to the FDA and the device manufacturer a device-related death within this time frame once becoming aware of the death.
What is within 10 days?
This wound closure distributes skin stretching forces and may provide a more cosmetic outcome.
What is a Zipper Closure?
A health care organization that connects provider reimbursement to quality metrics and the reduction in the cost of care.
What is an Accountable Care Organization?
Patients who are greater than 16 weeks pregnant should be placed in this position.
What is left lateral tilt?