1. NUMBER OF VENTILATION EXCHANGES FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR: 20 PER HOUR WITH 4 EXCHANGES FROM OUTDOOR AIR
2. HUMIDITY RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR:
... [Show More] 20-60%
3. TEMPURATURE RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR: 68-75 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
20-24 DEGREES CELSIUS
4. THIS LOSES PLIABILITY IF DRIED OUT OPEN OVER SMALL BASIN
SURGICAL GUT (PLAIN OR CHROMIC) AND COLLAGEN: NATURAL AB- SORBABLE SUTURE
5. MAXON MONOCRYL VICRYL DEXON
PDS & PDS II
DO NOT SOAK OR DIP IN WATER (THIS CAUSES HYDROLYSIS AND REDUC- TION OF TENSILE STRENGTH): SYNTHETIC ABSORBABLE SUTURE
6. SILK
SURGICAL COTTON (WEAKEST; GAINS STRENGTH WHEN WET) LINEN
STAINLESS STEEL (USED FOR CLOSURE OF STERNUM, RETENTION SU- TURE, SECONDARY REPAIR, RESP TRACT, ORTHO, NEUROSURGERY): - NATURAL NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
7. NYLON SUTURE
-MONOFILAMENT (ETHILON & DERMALON)
-COATED (SURGILON)
-UNCOATED (NEUROLON)
POLYESTER FIBER SUTURE
-COATED (TICRON, ETHIBOND, TEFLON)
-UNCOATED (MERSILENE & DACRON)
POLYPROPYLENE (PROLENE & SURGILENE) POLYBUTESTER (NOVAFIL)
POLY ETHYLENE (DERMALENE): SYNTHETIC NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
8. -NO INFLAMMATION
-RESP, AILMENTARY, AND GU TRACTS NOT ENTERED
-EX. EYE SURGERY, HERNIA REPAIRS, BREAST SURGERY, NONTRAUMAT- IC NEURO & ORTHO SURGERY, CARDIAC, OR PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY: CLASS I-CLEAN WOUNDS
9. -RESP, AILMENTARY, OR GU WOUNDS ENTERED UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS AND WITHOUT CONTAMINATION OF SURROUNDING TISSUE
-NO EVIDENCE OF INFECTION OR MAJOR BREAK IN ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE
-EX. D&C, TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY, GASTRECTOMY, CHOLE WITHOUT SPILLAGE, ELECTIVE APPY, CYSTOSCOPY, TURP ON PT W/ NEGATIVE URINE CULTURES, SIGMOID COLON RESECTION: CLASS II-CLEAN CONT- AMINATED
10. -OPEN, FRESH, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS
-MAJOR BREAK IN STERILE TECHNIQUE
-GROSS SPILLAGE FROM GI TRACT
-INCISIONS WITH ACUTE NONPURULENT INFLAMMATION
-EX. LAPAROTOMY W/ SIGNIFICANT SPILLAGE, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS, ACUTE APPENDICITIS OR CHOLECYSTITIS, COMPOUND FRACTURES: - CLASS III-CONTAMINATED WOUNDS
11. -OLD, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS WITH DEVITALIZED TISSUE, PERFORATED VISCERA, DELAYED PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE
-EX. INCISION AND DRAINAGE, TOTAL EVISCERATION, PERFORATED VIS- CERA: CLASS IV-DIRTY WOUNDS
12. PURPOSE OF STANDARDIZED [Show Less]