Asepsis - ✔✔ Free from infection or infectious material
medical asepsis - ✔✔ Defined as the destruction of disease causing
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surgical asepsis - ✔✔ Destruction of all organisms sued for surgery or injections
sterile field - ✔✔ A work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (including spores)
resident flora - ✔✔ microorganisms that normally reside on the skin, mucous membranes, and inside the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts
transient flora - ✔✔ microbes that reside on the skin surface and are easily removed by hand hygiene
hand hygiene - ✔✔ washing hands with either plain or antiseptic soap and water and using alcohol-based hand rubs
How long should you wash your hands for? - ✔✔ 1 minute and 15 seconds
How long should you rub hand sanitizer? - ✔✔ 20-30 seconds
Sanitization - ✔✔ cleaning process that REDUCES pathogen leavels to produce a healthy, clean environment
Disinfection - ✔✔ A process that eliminates many or all microorganisms, with the exception of bacteria spores, from inanimate objects
Sterilization - ✔✔ The process that completely destroys all microbial life, including spores.
Autoclave - ✔✔ Piece of equipment used to sterilize articles by way of steam under pressure and/or dry heat
The recommended temperature for effective sterilization in an autoclave is: - ✔✔ 250-255
Autoclave tape indicator - ✔✔ Used to show that the instruments have been properly steralized by changing colors.
sterile technique - ✔✔ Techniques of creating a sterile field and performing within the sterile field to keep microbes at an irreducible minimum
surgical instruments - ✔✔ Cutting
Dissecting
Grasping and Clamping
Dilating and Probing
Visualizing
surgical sutures - ✔✔ thread or wire used to hold tissue and skin together
Vital sings - ✔✔ human indicators of internal homeostasis
Temperature - ✔✔ A measure of how hot or cold something is.
Normal temperature range - ✔✔ 98.6 (97.7-99.5)
tympanic temperature - ✔✔ Temperature taken in the ear
axillary temperature - ✔✔ Temperature taken at the armpit
rectal temperature - ✔✔ temperature taken in the rectum
Temporal Artery Temperature - ✔✔ Temperature taken by forehead.
oral temperature - ✔✔ temperature taken in the mouth
pulse - ✔✔ Beat of the heart as felt through the walls of the arteries.
temporal pulse - ✔✔ side of forehead
carotid pulse - ✔✔ side of neck
apical pulse - ✔✔ pulse taken with a stethoscope and near the apex of the heart
brachial pulse - ✔✔ the pulse felt in the upper arm (used for blood pressures)
radial pulse - ✔✔ the pulse felt at the wrist
femoral pulse - ✔✔ groin
popliteal pulse - ✔✔ behind the knee
dorsalis pedis pulse - ✔✔ top of foot
pulse rate - ✔✔ the number of heartbeats or pulses felt in 1 minute
pulse rythm - ✔✔ The time interval between heartbeats
Pulse volume - ✔✔ The strength of the heartbeat as it contracts
Respiration - ✔✔ Provide for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide among the atmosphere, blood, and body cells.
respiration rate - ✔✔ number of breaths per minute
respiration rhythm - ✔✔ the pattern of breaths
respiration depth - ✔✔ amount of air inhaled and exhaled
blood pressure - ✔✔ the pressure that is exerted by the blood against the walls of blood vessels
systolic pressure - ✔✔ highest point of pressure on arterial walls when the ventricles contract
diastolic pressure - ✔✔ second number of a blood pressure reading; measurement of the pressure on artery walls when the heart is relaxed [Show Less]