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| OSHA - What does this stand for? | show 🗑
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| show | Organisation of Societies for Electrophysiological Technology.
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| OSHA - Bloodborne Pathogens Final Rule: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act: | show 🗑
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| show | The 2001 Final Rule revision reflects how employers implement new developments in control technology; requires employers to get input from employees involved in pt care, and requires employers to maintain a log of injuries from contaminated sharps.
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| show | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.
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| show | Solid waste or mass that may contain pathogens and, if contact with a susceptible host occurs, could result in transmission of an infectious disease.
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| OSHA - Infectious Waste Examples: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Disposal: | show 🗑
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| show | The single most important means of preventing the spread of infection. Wearing gloves does not replace the need for this.
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| OSHA - Proper Hand Hygiene Technique for alcohol-based hand rub: | show 🗑
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| show | Wet hands first, apply product to the hands and rub together for at least 15 s. Rinse, dry thoroughly with a disposable towel. Use the towel to turn off the faucet. Avoid using hot water because repeated exposure may increase dermatitis.
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| OSHA - Handwashing Facilities: | show 🗑
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| show | Recommends not be to be worn by those who have contact with high-risk patients (e.g., pts in ICUs, ORs) due to confirmed association with outbreaks of gram-negative bacillus and candidal infections. Settings have banned this for all healthcare personnel.
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| show | The removal of all visible dust, soil, and any other foreign material. Antiseptic soaps should not be used to clean inanimate objects. Gloves are recommended. Spot clean walls if splashes occur. Clean floors by wet mopping, wet or dry vacuuming.
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| OSHA - Disinfection: | show 🗑
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| show | Sterilization, high-level disinfection, intermediate-level disinfection, and low-level disinfection.
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| OSHA - Sterilization: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - High-Level Disinfection: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Intermediate-Level Disinfection: | show 🗑
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| show | Can kill most bacteria, some viruses, and some fungi, but it cannot be relied on to kill resistant microorganisms. Used for noncritical items that have contact with intact skin, which serves as a barrier to most microorganisms.
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| show | The selection of disinfectants involves determination of the level of disinfection required, the impact of the disinfection process on the instruments or devices, the cost of the disinfection method or product, and occupational health or safety risks.
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| show | In order for disinfection to be effective, you need to closely follow product or procedure recommendations for proper use. Ex: Some products require wet contact for a certain period of time to achieve the desired level of disinfection.
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| show | Product information tells actions it has against microorganisms. Ex: If it is a sporicide, sterilant, tuberculocide, vimcide, fungicide, and/or disinfectant, you see it's effectiveness. Since bacterial spores are most resistant, it is usually high-level.
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| show | Use product instructions or 20 minutes at room temperature for high level disinfection; at least 10 minutes for intermediate level disinfection.
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| show | Effective against a broad spectrum of microbes including gram positive negative bacteria as well as viruses. Can be used for high, intermediate, and low-level disinfection, inexpensive, fast acting, and offer low levels of toxicity and irritancy.
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| OSHA - Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl)/Bleach Precautions: | show 🗑
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| show | Require personnel to wear gloves during electrode application and removal for all pt contacts, regardless of potential for contact with blood, body fluids, or microorganisms. This universal policy eliminates the need for the tech to make a judgment call.
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| show | Single use, disposable items whenever possible. If reusable, reprocess only if the cost is less than to replace. Manufacturers state in catalogs and on package inserts: "Sterilization of multiple-use products is the sole responsibility of the user."
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| show | Do not recap needle electrodes unless specific situations warrant. If you must recap, never use two-handed techniques. An effective method is placing needle cap into a piece of stiff foam attached to a nearby instrument. The foam holds the cap in place.
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| OSHA - Needle Electrodes: | show 🗑
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| show | Skin preparation agents, collodion, and electrolyte paste and gels are usually sold in multi-dose containers. To decrease the risk of cross-contamination, small amt should go into single use container.
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| OSHA - Syringe: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Surface Electrodes: | show 🗑
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| show | Wipe with a low-level disinfectant after each use. Allow the items to air dry.
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| OSHA - Environment: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Blood and Body Fluid Spills: | show 🗑
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| show | Acetone is not a cleaning or disinfecting agent. Sufficient quantities of frequently used equipment should be available to allow appropriate time for disinfecting b/t uses. Classify items as critical, semi-critical, or non-critical.
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| OSHA - Critical EEG Items: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Semi-Critical Items: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Noncritical Items: | show 🗑
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| show | Maintain a relatively sterile environment and follow policies and procedures that reduce the spread of infection to patients.
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| OSHA - Recording in the Nursery or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: | show 🗑
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| show | If in-patient, nursing should be alerted. Care should be taken to carefully clean all electrodes of END equipment as not to spread insects. If the patient is an outpatient, establish a policy to cancel the appt and reschedule after eliminated.
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| OSHA - CJD: | show 🗑
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| show | This prion is resistant to sterilization and disinfection by most of the physical and chemical methods in common use. Single use, disposable invasive items are strongly recommended. When reusable must be used, strictest form of decontamination tolerated.
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| show | The Microbial Safety Index. Used to identify the probability that an item is contaminated.
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| show | Act or process, physical or chemical that destroys all forms of life, especially micro-organisms and spores.
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| OSHA - Spaulding Definition: | show 🗑
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| show | An inanimate object, which in itself is not harmful, but is able to harbor pathogenic micro-organisms and thus may serve as an agent or transmission of infection.
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| OSHA - Empiric Definition: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Disinfection Definition: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Decontamination Definition: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Virulence Definition: | show 🗑
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| show | The irreversible loss of the ability to propagate.
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| OSHA - Pasteurization Definition: | show 🗑
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| OSHA - Sanitation Definition: | show 🗑
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| show | A reproductive cell that usually possesses a thick wall enabling it to withstand unfavorable environmental conditions. Requires prolonged exposure to high temperatures. Sterilization or Sporicide are only decontamination methods that will destroy this.
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| OSHA - Sterilization Definition: | show 🗑
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| show | Process or chemical that kills viruses.
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| show | Removal of all visible dust, soil, and any other foreign material vs. Eliminating nearly all recognized pathogenic micro-organisms, but not necessarily all microbial life vs. Completely destroys or eliminates all forms of microbial life.
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| show | Environmental Protection Agency.
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| show | 1. Heat: Thermal heat (moist heat in steam autoclave) and Dry heat (hot-air oven) 2. Chemical: Ethylene Oxidate (C2H4O) and liquid chemicals.
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| OSHA - What should employees wash contaminated linens and reusable protective clothing with if professional laundry services are not available? | show 🗑
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| show | To clean or disinfect. To make more acceptable by removing unpleasant or offensive features. To make sanitary or hygienic, as by sterilizing to omit unpleasant details.
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| show | The first reduces the number of microorganisms to a safe level. It doesn't need to eliminate 100% of all organisms. The second completely destroys all organisms on listed. Legally, must reduce pathogenic bacteria by 99.999% in less than 10 minutes.
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