Decontamination At Home Assignment

Question 1

What is the final step in cleaning/decontamination process for many surgical instruments?

Answer 1

Lubrication

Question 2

Which microorganism represents the greatest challenge to destroy?

Answer 2

Bacterial spores

Question 3

T or F

The microorganism that represents the greatest challenge to sterile reprocessing staff is the fungal spore.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

T or F

Vertical soaking cylinders are used to soak instruments with lumens because they ensure that there are trapped air bubbles to assist with soil removal.

Answer 4

False.

It is an ultrasonic washer that used high frequency sounds waves that create vibrations that cause bubbles to implode and remove soil in hard to reach places

Question 5

T or F

Dr. E. H. Spaulding defines the classification of medical items into high risk, medium risk and low risk.

Answer 5

False. They classify medical equipment based off the risk of infection; critical, semi-critical, and non-critical items

Question 6

Processing reusable metal bed pans through an automated washer/decontaminator is considered to be appropriate according to Spalding’s classifications.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Under Spaulding’s classifications, a flexible endoscope would be considered a _________________ item.

Answer 7

semi-critical