CST - Chapter 4 - Part 2
People enter the operating room department directly into the restricted area. This is a central
location where visitors can be monitored and directed to change in surgical attire in order to
proceed to other areas.
Only personnel wearing surgical attire (a scrub suit and hair cap that encloses facial hair) are
allowed in the semirestricted area. The corridors between surgical rooms, the instrument and
supply processing area, storage areas, and clean utility rooms within the surgical department
are semirestricted areas.
Only personnel in complete scrub attire, including hair cap, mask, and facial hair covering are
permitted in a restricted area. These locations include the surgical suites, procedure rooms,
sterile corridor, substerile rooms between surgical suites, and those where sterile supplies are
kept. - ANS-Traffic patterns in the operating room are restricted. Describe the typical traffic
pattern for an operating room, and explain why the movement is restricted.
Allowing airflow from unrestricted to restricted areas can increase the risk of infection.
To reduce the risk, the air pressure in the surgical suite is maintained at level 10% higher than
the air pressure, - ANS-Explain how airflow in the operating room is managed to prevent
infection.
High efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters are installed in the operating room ventilation
system and remove particles equal to or larger than 0.3 um.
HEPA filters must be changed regularly to maintain their efficiency.
Protects from bacteria and molds that easily colonize heating and cooling vents and dirty filters,
especially in burn units. - ANS-Explain the HEPA air filtering system.
The clean processing room- items that are particularly delicate or that are used infrequently may
be processed in this area.
If an item must be reused in a later case and there is not enough time to send it to the central
processing department, it may be cleaned and prepared in the clean processing room. -
ANS-Instruments that are particularly delicate (e.g. Eye or those used in microsurgery) might not
go to the sterile processing room. What is a more appropriate way to process instruments such
as these after a surgical procedure?
Pathology department, nuclear medicine, infection, biomedical engineering, materials
management, central supply, pharmacy, diagnostic tests, blood banks, risk management, central
People enter the operating room department directly into the restricted area. This is a central
location where visitors can be monitored and directed to change in surgical attire in order to
proceed to other areas.
Only personnel wearing surgical attire (a scrub suit and hair cap that encloses facial hair) are
allowed in the semirestricted area. The corridors between surgical rooms, the instrument and
supply processing area, storage areas, and clean utility rooms within the surgical department
are semirestricted areas.
Only personnel in complete scrub attire, including hair cap, mask, and facial hair covering are
permitted in a restricted area. These locations include the surgical suites, procedure rooms,
sterile corridor, substerile rooms between surgical suites, and those where sterile supplies are
kept. - ANS-Traffic patterns in the operating room are restricted. Describe the typical traffic
pattern for an operating room, and explain why the movement is restricted.
Allowing airflow from unrestricted to restricted areas can increase the risk of infection.
To reduce the risk, the air pressure in the surgical suite is maintained at level 10% higher than
the air pressure, - ANS-Explain how airflow in the operating room is managed to prevent
infection.
High efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters are installed in the operating room ventilation
system and remove particles equal to or larger than 0.3 um.
HEPA filters must be changed regularly to maintain their efficiency.
Protects from bacteria and molds that easily colonize heating and cooling vents and dirty filters,
especially in burn units. - ANS-Explain the HEPA air filtering system.
The clean processing room- items that are particularly delicate or that are used infrequently may
be processed in this area.
If an item must be reused in a later case and there is not enough time to send it to the central
processing department, it may be cleaned and prepared in the clean processing room. -
ANS-Instruments that are particularly delicate (e.g. Eye or those used in microsurgery) might not
go to the sterile processing room. What is a more appropriate way to process instruments such
as these after a surgical procedure?
Pathology department, nuclear medicine, infection, biomedical engineering, materials
management, central supply, pharmacy, diagnostic tests, blood banks, risk management, central
