Dirty Little Secrets
You can use this to check for bioburden inside of cannulated instruments.
What is a BORESCOPE?
This antiquated term refers to the process by which a contaminated instrument is returned to the sterile field in minimal time?
What is "FLASH"
It's the area within Sterile Processing where instruments are inspected, assembled and sterilized.
What is Prep-N-Pack?
A specially designed medical instrument used to view the interior of a hollow organ or body cavity, this instrument may be flexible, semi-rigid or rigid.
What is an ENDOSCOPE?
It's the term used to describe "Putting On" PPE.
What is DONNING?
Yes, we actually test our washers with these devices every morning.
What are TOSI TESTS?
This term is used when returning "multiples of the same" items back to a shelf or drawer, so the oldest dated item is used before those recently processed.
What is "FIRST IN" - "FIRST OUT"?
This is the absence of microorganisms that cause disease.
What is Asepsis?
Devices with this SPALDING Classification MUST be High-Level Disinfected.
What is Semi-Critical?
It's the correct way to "scrub" soiled instruments in order to prevent aerosolization from the scrubbing motion and bristles from the brush.
What is UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE WATER?
iPads are a great way to Have these at your fingertips as they give you the answer to all of your instrument cleaning questions.
What are Instructions for Use? or What are IFUs?
An "Inanimate" object that can transmit bacteria and one of the main reasons to wipe down work areas daily.
What is a FOMITE?
It's the number of packages with moisture on, or within from a sterilizer load that makes it a wet load.
What is TWO or MORE?
Adenosine Triphosphate in short order!
What is ATP?
This instrument was invented in 1905 by Franz Weitlaner, a physician in Ottenthal, Austria.
What is a WEITLANER?
It's the process (Not the machine) by which sound waves are used to clean instruments in hard-to-reach areas.
What is CAVITATION?
These instruments are used for gasping, holding firmly or exerting traction upon objects.
What are Forceps?
It's the method of wrapping instruments with one sheet of wrap, then using a second sheet to wrap the exact same way.
What is SEQUENTIAL WRAP?
It's the MINIMUM amount of time a Flexible Endoscope MUST be submerged in water in order to conduct a standards compliant leak test?
What is 30 seconds?
This step in the TEE Probe cleaning process could have shocking results if not done properly.
What is INSULATION RESISTANCE TESTING?
It's the "FULL" Name of the Decon Mascot.
What is "Don, Don, the Decon Swan?"
Amount of light equivalent to that produced by one standard candle at a distance of one foot.
What is a FOOT CANDLE?
Pg. 396
What is "DID YOU PUT AN INTEGRATOR IN THERE?"
This section of a flexible endoscope is where the doctor controls the bending section, suction and air.
What is the Control Body?
A rod-shaped Gram- positive bacterium that grows within a temperature range of 30° - 75° Celsius that is commonly used as a challenge organism for sterilization validation studies and periodic checks of sterilization cycles.
What is GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS?