IV Therapy Terms

Question 0

Term for an ISO Class 8 or better area where personnel hand hygiene and garbing procedures, staging of components, order entry, CSP labeling, and other high-particulate generating activities are performed?

Answer 0

Ante Area or Ante Room

Question 1

What’s the term for a mode of processing pharmaceutical and medical products that involves the separate sterilization of the product and of the package and the transfer of the product into the container and its closure under at least ISO Class 5 conditions?

Answer 1

Aseptic processing

Question 2

Term for technique involving procedures designed to preclude contamination (of drugs, packaging, equipment, supplies) by micro organisms during processing?

Answer 2

Aseptic technique

Question 3

Term for the date or time after which a compounded sterile preparation shall not be stored or administered…the date is determined from the date or time the preparation is compounded?

Answer 3

Beyond Use Date

Question 4

Term for the degree of microbial confirmation or microbial load; the number of micro organisms contaminating an object?

Answer 4

Bioburden

Question 5

Term for a ventilated cabinet for compounded sterile products, personnel, product and environmental protection having an open front with inward air flow for personnel protection, downward HEPA-filtered laminar air flow for production protection and HEPA-filtered exhaust for environmental protection?

Answer 5

Biological Safety Cabinet

Question 6

Term for an area where the primary engineering control is physically located…activities that occur in this area include the preparation and staging of components and supplies used when compounding CSPs?

Answer 6

Buffer area

Question 7

Term for a hollow tube made of plastic or metal used for accessing the vascular system?

Answer 7

Cannula

Question 8

Term for a thin, flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open?

Answer 8

Catheter

Question 9

Term for a room in which the concentration of airborne particles is controlled to meet a specific airborne particulate cleanliness class?

Answer 9

Clean Room

Question 10

Term for capacity for being mixed and administered without undergoing undesirable chemical and/or physical changes or loss of therapeutic action?

Answer 10

Compatibility

Question 11

Term for a drug or nutritional substance that is free from living micro organisms and is compounded, manipulated or repackaged by pharmacy personnel using aseptic technique and other quality assurance procedures?

Answer 11

Compounded Sterile Preparation

Question 12

Term for a A CAI designed to provide worker protection from exposure to undesirable levels of airborne drug throughout the compounding and material transfer processes and to provide an aseptic environment for compounding sterile preparations? Air exchange with the surrounding environment should not occur unless is first passes through a microbial retentive filter system capable of containing airborne concentrations of the physical size and state of the drug being compounded

Answer 12

Compounding Aseptic Containment Isolator (CACI)

Question 13

Term for a form of isolator specifically designed for compounding pharmaceutical ingredients or preparations?

Answer 13

Compounding Aseptic Isolator (CAI)

Question 14

Which isolator is designed to maintain an aseptic compounding environment within the isolator throughout the compounding and material transfer processes?

Answer 14

Compounding Aseptic Isolator