INSTRUCTIONS: The following exercises are to be answered by marking the lettered response that best answers the question or best completes the incomplete sentence or by writing the answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, scroll to the bottom of this page and check your answers.
1. A set of steps by which a desired result is accomplished by surgery is known as:
_____________________________________
2. __________________________________ is the general or local insensibility to pain and other sensation induced by drugs.
3. Which technician on the OR team is sterile? _______________________
4. What is the procedure called for covering the patient and surrounding areas with a sterile barrier? __________________________________________
5. Which technician on the operating room team functions outside of the sterile field during surgery? __________________________________________
6. Suture, used as a noun, is defined as _____________________________ .
7. Who provides the supplies required by a “sterile team”?
a. NCOIC.
b. Scrub.
c. Circulator.
d. Assistant surgeon.
8. Which of the following statements is accurate as a principle of aseptic technique?
a. Sterile packages are to be opened toward the body.
b. If part of an article is unsterile, use only the sterile part.
c. An article removed from a sterile wrapper, even if unused, is to be discarded.
d. The outside wrapper around sterile goods is to be touched by the gloved hands only.
9. The circulator and the scrub must know all the procedures to be done before, during, and after surgery by each of them so that they can:
a. Be aware of what the other is doing at all times.
b. Relieve each other during breaks in the procedure.
c. Brief the patient on what will be done in the procedure.
d. Substitute for each other during the procedure, if necessary.
10. Knowing and applying principles of aseptic or sterile technique is known as ______________________________________________________ .
11. The process by which all pathogenic and nonpathogenic microorganisms, including spores, are killed is known as ______________________________.
12. Sources of contamination in the operating room are:
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
13. A microscopic organism capable of producing diseases is commonly called a(n) __________________________________________ .
14. __________________________________ is a process whereby microorganisms present on an object are reduced in number to a level considered safe for human use.
15. __________________________________ is the absence of microorganisms that cause diseases.
16. The area of the operating room that immediately surrounds and is especially prepared for the patient is __________________________________.
17. Invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and the reaction of tissue to their presence is known as __________________________________.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS. In exercises 18 through 22, match the following words with the correct definition by writing the letter of the correct definition in the space by the term.
| 18. ____ Suture (verb)
19. ____ Sponge 20. ____ Operating room team 21. ____ Procedure 22. ____ Autoclave |
a. A sterile surgical dressing of absorbent material for wiping or absorbing blood or other fluids during an operation.
b. Surgeon, scrub technician, anesthetist, and circulating technician. c. Act of sewing by bringing tissues together and holding them until healing has occurred. d. A sterilizing apparatus. e. A particular way of doing something; a set order |
Check Your Answers Below
1. Surgical procedure (para 1-2jj)
2. Anesthesia (para 1-2a)
3. Scrub (para 1-2bb)
4. Draping (para 1-2r)
5. Circulator (para 1-2j)
6. Any strand of material used to sew tissue together. (para 1-2oo)
7. c (para 1-5e)
8. c (para 1-5b)
9. a (paras 1-3a; 1-5e)
10. Surgical conscience (para 1-4d)
11. Sterilization (para 1-2ii)
12. Members of the OR team.
The patient.
Items used in the wound.
Items in the sterile setup.
Dust in the air.
Other personnel in the operating room (para 1-4e)
13. Germ (para 1-2s)
14. Sanitation (para 1-2z)
15. Asepsis (para 1-2e)
16. Sterile field (para 1-2gg)
17. Infection (para 1-2u)
18. c (para 1-2nn)
19. a (para 1-2dd)
20. b (para 1-2kk)
21. e (para 1-2w)
22. d (para 1-2g)