Sterile Processing Sterilization Exam
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steam sterilization - ✔✔Is the most common form of sterilization because its cheap
Test packs - ✔✔Are placed over the drain
Routine clean of the chamber - ✔✔Should be scheduled and the sterilizer must be turn
off to cool the chamber
Three parameters for steam - ✔✔Pressure, time and temperature
What is always needed for sterilization - ✔✔Time
Exposure to prions - ✔✔18 minutes at 272 F
CJD - ✔✔mad cow disease
Steam sterilization is the - ✔✔Product of heat and moisture
Three types of air removal - ✔✔Gravity displacement cycles
Prevacuum cycles
Steam flush and pressure pulses
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, Drying is critical because - ✔✔Wet packs can wick moisture and bacteria into the
package contaminating it
Wet packs can be caused by - ✔✔Clogged drain lines
Insufficient dry time
Set being too heavy
Instruments in mesh pans/ trays should be - ✔✔Placed flat on the sterilizer rack
Solid bottom mayons and basins should be - ✔✔Tilted on their edge to let condensation
run off
Textile packs should be - ✔✔Placed on their sides
Peel packs should be - ✔✔Placed on the edge (with paper to plastic)
Sterilization containers should be - ✔✔Placed flat with a small space between
mechanical monitoring - ✔✔Charts, gauges and printouts
Printouts should be - ✔✔Reviewed by the operator and signed/initialed
Do not use white out - ✔✔Draw one line across and initialed
Lot control should have - ✔✔Sterilizer identification
Load number
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
steam sterilization - ✔✔Is the most common form of sterilization because its cheap
Test packs - ✔✔Are placed over the drain
Routine clean of the chamber - ✔✔Should be scheduled and the sterilizer must be turn
off to cool the chamber
Three parameters for steam - ✔✔Pressure, time and temperature
What is always needed for sterilization - ✔✔Time
Exposure to prions - ✔✔18 minutes at 272 F
CJD - ✔✔mad cow disease
Steam sterilization is the - ✔✔Product of heat and moisture
Three types of air removal - ✔✔Gravity displacement cycles
Prevacuum cycles
Steam flush and pressure pulses
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, Drying is critical because - ✔✔Wet packs can wick moisture and bacteria into the
package contaminating it
Wet packs can be caused by - ✔✔Clogged drain lines
Insufficient dry time
Set being too heavy
Instruments in mesh pans/ trays should be - ✔✔Placed flat on the sterilizer rack
Solid bottom mayons and basins should be - ✔✔Tilted on their edge to let condensation
run off
Textile packs should be - ✔✔Placed on their sides
Peel packs should be - ✔✔Placed on the edge (with paper to plastic)
Sterilization containers should be - ✔✔Placed flat with a small space between
mechanical monitoring - ✔✔Charts, gauges and printouts
Printouts should be - ✔✔Reviewed by the operator and signed/initialed
Do not use white out - ✔✔Draw one line across and initialed
Lot control should have - ✔✔Sterilizer identification
Load number
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