Medical Surgical Asepsis

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Microorganisms found in many places in the body and does not cause disease

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Normal flora

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Cardinal signs include; redness, heat, swelling and pain

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Inflammation

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Type of asepsis using non-sterile gloves

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Medical asepsis

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Destruction of all microbial life (pathogenic and non-pathogenic)

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Sterilization

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Precautions used in hospitals

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Standard precautions

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Ephinphine added to a local anesthetic to constrict blood vessels (head and face)

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Vasoconstrictor

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How to store instruments with ratchets

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Open

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Laser surgery promotes quick healing and does not _____ surrounding tissues

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Destroy

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A type of local anesthetic that has an effect immediately or within a few minutes

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Topical anesthetic

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While setting up a sterile field bare hands may not touch here

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Inside

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Size 0 suture material

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Thickest

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Illness or infections acquired in a medical facility

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Nosocomial

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Type of asepsis used when applying a sterile dressing over a wound after surgery

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Surgical asepsis

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Type of infection that can occur through breathing tubes, catheters, cuts, and sores when not following asepsis

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MRSA

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More effective than 70% isopropyl alcohol

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Povidone iodine

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Pus-like drainage

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Purulent

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Splinter forceps remove these

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Foreign bodies

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Intact skin is an example of the bodies protection to infection

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Barrier

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Instrument based on its use

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Classification

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Made by a scalpel

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Incision

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Placed in the center of a sterile pack before it is put in the autoclave

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Indication strip

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Caused by long hair, long fingernails, or excessive jewerly

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Contamination

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Unlighted instrument to spread apart body cavities

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Speculum

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Contaminated part of a sterile field

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Edges

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Where sterile packs can be touched by bare

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Outside

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Most expensive type of suture

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Silk

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Type of membrane that lines body orifices- repels microbs

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Mucous

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Type of surgery; admitted and discharged in the same day

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Ambulatory

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Antibodies are able to _____ antigens

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Neutralize

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Do we use aluminum foil?

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Never. Use heavy paper, steel containers, plastic etc

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Universal precautions

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Medical offices

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Standard precautions

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Started in hospitals

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How fast does topical and local asepsis start to work?

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Almost immediately

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Sterile means

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Surgical

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What do you use transferring forceps for?

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Moving bigger instruments on the tray

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Hepatitis A

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-fecal material in food

-contaminated

-food borne

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Hepatitis B

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-Blood, semen

-blood borne

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Hepatitis C

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Use of needles

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Autoclave

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Used to sterile:

-steamed under pressure

-dry heat

-dry gas

-radiation

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Best temp for pathogens?

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36 degrees

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Prodromial period

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Early sign of feeling sick but dont know yet

Mild signs and symptoms

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Autoclave range

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250 to 270 degrees

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PPE wear

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Gloves

Goggles or face shield

Gown

Mask or respirator

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How do you take out a suture?

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Go towards, not apart

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3 surgical aseptic guidelines

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Edges on sterile field is contaminated

Do not cross sterile field

Keep an eye unless contaminated

Talk, sneeze or touch

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5 steps of chain of infection

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Reservoir host

Portal of exit

Means of transmission

Portal of entry

Susceptible host

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How to open a sterile pack?

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-hand hygiene

-assemble equipment, adjust mayo stand to correct height

-place the packet on the mayo stand with the folded edge on top. Position the packet on the stand so that the top flap will fold away from you

-remove the tape or fastener and check the sterilization indicator and date. Discard in a waste container

-pull the corner of the pack that is tucked under and lay this flap away from you.

-with both hands, pull the next two flaps to each side. The packet will be covered with the last layer of the outer wrapper.

-grasp the corner of the last flap, without reaching over the sterile field, and open the flap toward your body without touching it

-the inside of this outer wrapper is now your sterile field.

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Inflammatory phase (would healing)

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Blood clot forms

-stops bleeding

-scab forms

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Proliferating phase

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Edges pull together

Cells multiply

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Maturation phase

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Tissue cells strengthen and tighten the wound closure

Scar tissue forms