Sterile Processing Sterilization
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Verified
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steam sterilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the most common form of sterilization
because its cheap
Test packs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Are placed over the drain
Routine clean of the chamber - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Should be scheduled and
the sterilizer must be turn off to cool the chamber
Three parameters for steam - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pressure, time and
temperature
What is always needed for sterilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Time
Exposure to prions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔18 minutes at 272 F
, CJD - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔mad cow disease
Steam sterilization is the - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Product of heat and moisture
Three types of air removal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gravity displacement cycles
Prevacuum cycles
Steam flush and pressure pulses
Drying is critical because - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Wet packs can wick moisture
and bacteria into the package contaminating it
Wet packs can be caused by - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clogged drain lines
Insufficient dry time
Set being too heavy
Instruments in mesh pans/ trays should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Placed flat on
the sterilizer rack
Solid bottom mayons and basins should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tilted on their
edge to let condensation run off
Textile packs should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Placed on their sides
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Verified
Answers | Already Graded A+
steam sterilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the most common form of sterilization
because its cheap
Test packs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Are placed over the drain
Routine clean of the chamber - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Should be scheduled and
the sterilizer must be turn off to cool the chamber
Three parameters for steam - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pressure, time and
temperature
What is always needed for sterilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Time
Exposure to prions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔18 minutes at 272 F
, CJD - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔mad cow disease
Steam sterilization is the - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Product of heat and moisture
Three types of air removal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gravity displacement cycles
Prevacuum cycles
Steam flush and pressure pulses
Drying is critical because - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Wet packs can wick moisture
and bacteria into the package contaminating it
Wet packs can be caused by - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clogged drain lines
Insufficient dry time
Set being too heavy
Instruments in mesh pans/ trays should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Placed flat on
the sterilizer rack
Solid bottom mayons and basins should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tilted on their
edge to let condensation run off
Textile packs should be - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Placed on their sides
