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Boost your confidence for the AORN Periop 101 Exam with this comprehensive study guide featuring carefully organized exam questions and verified answers. This resource is designed to help perioperative nursing students and healthcare professionals review essential concepts commonly covered in Periop 101 courses. Topics include aseptic and sterile technique, infection prevention, surgical patient safety, operating room procedures, surgical instrumentation, anesthesia considerations, specimen handling, positioning, skin preparation, surgical counts, and professional perioperative nursing standards.

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AORN PERIOP 101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
COREECT{DETAILED} ANSWERS 100%
PASS//ALREADY GRADED A+
NUMBER OF VENTILATION EXCHANGES FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR - (answer)20 PER
HOUR WITH 4 EXCHANGES FROM OUTDOOR AIR



HUMIDITY RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR - (answer)20-60%



TEMPURATURE RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR - (answer)68-75 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT

20-24 DEGREES CELSIUS

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THIS LOSES PLIABILITY IF DRIED OUT

OPEN OVER SMALL BASIN

SURGICAL GUT (PLAIN OR CHROMIC) AND COLLAGEN - (answer)NATURAL
ABSORBABLE SUTURE



MAXON

MONOCRYL

VICRYL

DEXON

PDS & PDS II

, DO NOT SOAK OR DIP IN WATER (THIS CAUSES HYDROLYSIS AND REDUCTION OF
TENSILE STRENGTH) - (answer)SYNTHETIC ABSORBABLE SUTURE



SILK

SURGICAL COTTON (WEAKEST; GAINS STRENGTH WHEN WET)

LINEN

STAINLESS STEEL (USED FOR CLOSURE OF STERNUM, RETENTION SUTURE,
SECONDARY REPAIR, RESP TRACT, ORTHO, NEUROSURGERY) - (answer)NATURAL
NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
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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) - (answer)SYNTHETIC NONABSORBABLE SUTURE

, -NO INFLAMMATION

-RESP, AILMENTARY, AND GU TRACTS NOT ENTERED

-EX. EYE SURGERY, HERNIA REPAIRS, BREAST SURGERY, NONTRAUMATIC NEURO
& ORTHO SURGERY, CARDIAC, OR PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY -
(answer)CLASS I-CLEAN WOUNDS
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-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 - (answer)CLASS II-CLEAN CONTAMINATED



-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 - (answer)CLASS III-
CONTAMINATED WOUNDS



-OLD, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS WITH DEVITALIZED TISSUE, PERFORATED VISCERA,
DELAYED PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE

-EX. INCISION AND DRAINAGE, TOTAL EVISCERATION, PERFORATED VISCERA -
(answer)CLASS IV-DIRTY WOUNDS

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