Dialysis Technician Exam Questions With Correct Answers

infection - Answer is the second most common cause of death in HD patient Infection can occur when pathogens enter the body through - Answer • a break in the skin • a mucous membrane • the lungs 3 main ways disease can spread - Answer 1. direct contact 2. indirect contact 3. droplet spread In dialysis clinic pathogens can be spread by - Answer patient, bath, visitors, equipment, water, dialysate, and air direct contact - Answer with an infected person such as shaking hands or kissing indirect contact - Answer We touch objects such as dialysis chair, patient chart, blood pressure cuffs, IV poles, and treatment carts droplet spread - Answer we breathe in droplets that were coughed or sneezed by an infected person Aseptic - Answer free from disease-causing germs clean - Answer not free from germs , but disinfected and usable for some steps in the treatment contaminated - Answer was sterile or clean but then was touched by a non sterile object dirty - Answer neither clean or sterile Basic Guidelines for Aseptic Technique - Answer • package sterile items as sterile only if the package is closed and sealed • wash your hands before you touch a package that contain sterile item • keep sterile packages dry • a contaminated object contaminate a sterile one • before you use a multi-dose vial scrub the rubber stopper with disinfectant • all fistula needle syringe tips and needles used to give meds or draw blood must be sterile dialysate - Answer made up of : RO water acid concentrate bicarbonate concentrate Extracorporeal Circuit includes: - Answer • dialyzer • bloodlines • monitoring lines • Heparin line • transducer protector priming - Answer Takes air in germicide out of the Bloodlines and dialyzer during recirculation - Answer UF and diffusion help "dialyze off" of any germicide that is left bruit - Answer - is a buzzing or swooshing sound caused by the high pressure flow of blood through a patient's fistula or graft. dialysate alarms - Answer • conductivity alarm • temperature alarm • pH alarm * if each of the above alarms is working the machine will go into bypass mode (dialysate flow to the do the dialyzer should stop)