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| Patient already had a problem |
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| During a surgery on a dog, there is endogenous contamination. How could this happen? |
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| A cat needs to undergo a urinary catheter placement. Would you use open or closed gloving technique? |
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| When doing a lavage on an abdomen, what type of fluid would you use? |
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| A male dog presents for an abdominal surgery for an umbilical surgery. What type of perpetration must be done? |
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| Once the patient is in surgery and tied down to the surgery table. |
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| When do you do the third sterile scrub? |
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| Iodine scrub with iodine solution. |
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| What scrub and rinse solution would you not use together? |
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| When using electrocautery, what should be avoided? |
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| To protect the incision from the skin |
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| Why do we place sterile towels around the incision? |
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| Trixie has been prepped for a spay. When preparing for surgery, what needs to be done after clipping? |
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| All living microorganisms and their spores. |
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| You are given the job of keeping the surgery aseptic. What do you need to make sure is gone for asepsis? |
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| Change gloves before lifting items out of the pack. |
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| As a circulating tech, you are asked to check the pack for sterility. You do not see an tears or rips on the outside of the pack. You then open the pack and begin handing the veterinarian the instruments. The vet gets upset and tells you , you've broken asepsis. What should you have done differently? |
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| Let the veterinarian known there is Strike through |
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| You notice that fluid is seeping through the sterile drape, what should you do? |
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| Where is the incision made for a dog to be castrated? |
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| What does instrument milk do for the instrument? |
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| It can put pressure on the diaphragm, which makes respiration difficult. |
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| A disadvantage of tilting the surgery table during a procedure is what? |
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| The packs must sit in a well ventilated room for 7 days or 12-24 hours in an aerator. |
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| After ethylene oxide gas sterilization, what must be done with the instruments? |
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| For non-invasive procedures |
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| When is cold sterilization of instruments okay? |
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| What breeds should you wait longer on to remove ET tubes? |
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| When you are sterile gowned and gloved, how should your hands be placed? |
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| Let the surgery team known ASAP |
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| When there has been a break in asepsis, what should you do? |
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| Anything that comes from the inside of the patient that reaches the wound/ surgical site via the blood stream. |
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| Anything that comes from the outside of the patient. |
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| The effort to keep a patient or area free from microorganisms as possible |
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Temperature
Contact time of chemical or temperature
Mechanical removal. |
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| There are 3 main factors that determine the degree to which pathogens are destroyed. |
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