Biomedical Science
Google, Yahoo, and Bing are popular
What is an internet search engine?
Produces a blue light or green light.
What is argon laser?
One of the most important skills of the surgical technologist
What is anticipation?
Life-threatening, acute disorder that develops during or after anesthesia and is triggered by an anesthetic agent
What is malignant hyperthermia?
Contains preferences, glove size, suture used, patient position
What is a preference card?
Used in surgery to coagulate and cut
What is the ESU?
Permits precise cutting and coagulating due to absorption
What is CO2 laser?
It takes a minimum of four people for this.
What is transfer the patient to OR bed?
May result in clotting symptoms or, more often, in bleeding due to the depletion of the body’s blood clotting mechanisms
What is DIC?
Materials that inhibit the flow of electrons
What is a conductor?
This setting on the ESU does not require a grounding pad
What is bipolar?
Wavelength is located in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is a YAG laser?
Typically used for a colonscopy procedure.
What is Sims position?
The intentional use of infectious agents, or germs, to cause illness.
What is terrorism or bioterrorism?
Uses argon gas and requires proper placement of grounding pad.
What is monopolar?
Rigid holster
Where the bovie is stored?
Gas laser with electrical current activates the krypton medium to create the laser energy.
What is krypton laser?
Alcohol, iodophors, and chlorhexidine
What is skin prep?
Exaggerated allergic reaction to a substance or protein
What is anaphylactic shock?
Coagulates tissue at a lower temperature.
What is ultrasonic energy?
Degrees of freedom
What are the ways a robot can move?
Laser beam is ultraviolet in color.
What is excimer laser?
The last opportunity to confirm the correct patient and procedure before the skin incision is made and the endoscope is inserted.
What is a time out?
Declares a national emergency or disaster
Who is the president?
Treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy
What is plasma vaporization