Patient Care - Flashcards
How often should systems be inspected?
Routinely
Sonographers should do peer to peer reviews how often for quality/technical review?
2 times a month
Who’s responsible is it to obtain the informed consent before a TEE?
The doctor
In what year did congress enact HIPPA?
1996
Sterilization differs from disinfection how?
Sterilization removal all transmissible agents while disinfection only removes the organisms that can cause disease
What is opportunistic infection?
Infections that occur when the “good bacteria in the body is damaged. Allowing bad bacteria to multiply and harm the host
The preferred method for sterilization is with?
Heat and pressure
A widely used method for heat sterilization is?
The Autoclave
An Autoclave used what kind of sterilization technique?
Heat and pressure
Autoclaves use steam heated to what degree?
250F or 121C
Autoclaves use pressure heated to what degree?
15 PSI or 103 kPA
How long should the autoclave be used for to sterilize?
15minutes
Is an autoclave a method of sterilization or disinfection?
Sterilization
What is the most effective way for sterilization?
Heat
Why is Chemical sterilization not always appropriate?
Because the chemicals can destroy objects like plastic, electronic, fiber optics.
Can chemicals be used for sterilization?
Yes
Ethylene Oxide is a gas used for?
Sterilization
Ethylene Oxide is a gas used for objects that can not?
Survivor past 60C like plastics, electronic and fiber optics
Sepsis means?
To soul or dirty
A technique that refers to practices that reduce post procedure infections in patients by decreasing the chance that microorganisms will enter the body during surgery is called?
Aseptic
Aseptic means?
Without microorganisms
True or false - The spike of an IV set is sterile and must not come into contacts with nonsterile objects
True
What does PIM mean?
Potentially infectious material
Disinfectant should be ___% ___ and ____ parts water
10% beach and 9 parts water
