Midterm Review Flashcards
What is the name is the instrument part located between the boxlock and finger rings?
Shank
A ratchet mechanism that holds an instrument in a closed position is called the ___.
Box lock
A McPherson ___ lid speculum is used to retract the eyelids.
Self-retaining
A ___ is used to cut and extract tissue and is distinguished by having a spring-loaded hinge.
Rongeur
The Babcock clamp is a non-occlusive, delicate clamp used to manipulate the intestines and ___ organs.
Reproductive
Most ___ are power driven electrically or pneumatically with compressed air or nitrogen.
Saws
The ___, which has a T tip with fine serrations at the tip, often is used to clamp or grasp adipose tissue.
Allis clamp
___ are available in many widths and sizes that fit a particular specialty.
Chisels
The center hinge screw of the ___ can become worn with time.
Scissors
___ is a method that imparts color and hardness to the surface of titanium.
Titanium anodizing
The ___ is a small cup with a sharpened, serrated, or smooth rim at the end of the handle.
Curette
A(n) ___ is used to remodel bone.
Rasp
Sterile instruments and supplies are loaded onto the ___ before surgery and transported to the surgical suite.
Case cart
___ items must be sterile. These items enter sterile tissue or the vascular system.
Critical
The phrase flash sterilization has been replaced by ___ sterilization, in which unwrapped surgical equipment is sterilized by a high-vacuum steam sterilization method just before use.
Immediate-use steam sterilization-IUSS
___ is used to sterilize objects that cannot tolerate the heat, moisture, and pressure of steam sterilization.
Ethylene oxide
The temperature of the gas directly affects the penetration of items in the chamber. Operating temperatures range from ___ for a “cold” cycle and ___ for a “warm” cycle.
85 degrees F to 100 degrees F and 130 degrees F to 145 degrees F
A ___ is a paper strip or specially treated tape that changes color when exposed to a specific temperature.
Chemical indicator
The Spaulding classification of reprocessing instruments and patient materials assigns three risk levels based on the specific region of the body where the device will be used. These levels are critical, semi critical, and ___.
Noncritical
Which class includes indicators that are the most exacting and accurate of all indicators and that react to all critical values over a specified range in the sterilization process?
5
Which class includes indicators that respond to only one critical parameter with an exact value?
3
Class ___ indicators are used for internal pack control of each cycle run, not for the overall performance of the sterilizer for all cycles.
6
Class ___ indicators measure parameters. Examples include the Bowie-Dick and daily air-removal tests for the presence of pure air (no steam) in the sterilization chamber.
2
Class ___ is represented by multivariable indicators that react to two or more parameters. An example is internal chemical indicators printed on a paper strip.
4
There are three distinct phases in all types of steam sterilizers, ___ is when air is removed from the chamber and replaced with steam.
Conditioning
Two types of steam sterilizers are used in the clinical setting:
Gravity displacement and dynamic
The important factor to remember about ___ is that they do not indicate sterility, only that certain conditions for sterility have been met.
Indicators
Once the abdominal cavity is opened, the sponges that are passed:
Should be laparotomy
Can be raytecs if mounted on a ring forceps
The medical term describing the surgical repair of a hernia is:
Herniorrhaphy
One indication for gallbladder removal is inflammation. The medical term for inflammation of the gallbladder is:
Cholecystitis
All of the following are other names for the Mixter forceps EXCEPT:
Kocher
All of the following instruments are used for hemostasis EXCEPT:
Allis
All of the following are suction tips EXCEPT:
Parker
Which of the following instruments uses low-temperature cavitation to coagulate and divide tissues?
Harmonic scalpel
Which of the following tissue forceps is the most commonly used in all specialties?
DeBakey
Which scissors are commonly used to incise the uterus without harming the fetus during a C-section?
Lister
The vast majority of instruments are manufactured from which of the following?
Stainless steel
Gold plating on an instrument would signify which of the following?
Tugsten carbide
Heavy instruments:
Should be placed at the bottom of the pan.
Powered instruments may be powered by all of the following EXCEPT:
water
An instrument used to compress vessels and other tubular structures would fall into which of the following categories?
Clamping and occluding
