Decm 4

Question 1

Sterile technique

Answer 1

Techniques of creating a sterile field and performing with the sterile field to keep microbes at an irreducible minimum

Question 2

Strike-through contamination

Answer 2

Contamination of a sterile field that occurs through the passage of fluid through, or a puncture in, a microbial barrier

Question 3

Surgically clean

Answer 3

Mechanically cleaned and chemically disinfected but not sterile

Question 4

Terminal disinfection

Answer 4

To render items safe to handle by high-level disinfection

Question 5

Terminal Sterilization

Answer 5

To render items safe to handle by sterilization

Question 6

Transient flora

Answer 6

Microbes that reside on the skin surface and are easily removed

Question 7

Vector

Answer 7

Living carrier that transmits disease

Question 8

Virucide

Answer 8

Agent that destroys viruses

Question 9

Classification of patient care items

Answer 9

Critical
Semi-critical
non-critical

Question 10

Staphylococcus

Answer 10

Skin

most commonly found and transmitted in the OR