Transcript Medical Jeopardy

Medical Jeopardy
Sterile Procedures
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This type of bacteria are unable to
grow in the presence of oxygen
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What are anaerobic bacteria?
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Lysol is an example of one
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What is a disinfectant?
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It is a machine that removes debris
and dirt but does not disinfect or
sterilize at all
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What is an ultrasonic cleaner?
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It is the number of layers of wrap that
every pack for the autoclave must
have
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What is two? (outer one is for the non
sterile nurse to open for the sterile
nurse to then open for the surgeon)
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Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in
common
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What are bacilli?
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The two methods that are at work in
the autoclave to kill microorganisms
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What are high temperature and high
pressure?
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The time required to a proper surgical
scrub
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What is ten minutes? (for both the
surgeon’s hands and the patient’s
skin)
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It is an inanimate surface that may
carry microorganisms
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What is a fomite?
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It means a “hospital infection”
generated by healthcare workers
transmitted to patients
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What is a “nosocomial” infection?
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It is a type of bacterium that generally
causes abscess formation and
purulence.
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What is staphlococcus?
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It is an example of a disease caused
by a spirochete
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What is syphilis ( also cholera?
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It is a group of diseases generally
carried by insects
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What are Rickettsiae? (Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever and typhus
both carried by insects)
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It is a dish commonly used to culture
bacteria for identification
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What is a Petri dish?
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It is a machine used to keep bacteria
growing overnight at body temperature
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What is an incubator? (98.6 degree
Fahrenheit and 37 degrees on the
Celsius (centigrade) scale; i.e. normal
human body temperature)
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It is the name of the growth medium
used in Petri dishes to grow bacteria
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What is agar?
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It is the seed-form of fungi that helps
them survive inhospitable
environments
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What are spores?
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It is the single most important method
of breaking the chain of infection cycle
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What is hand washing?
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He is credited with creating the germ
theory of disease
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Who was Louis Pasteur?
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He is credited with developing most of
the culturing techniques we use in
microbiology labs
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Who was Robert Koch?
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It is a chemical which literally means,
“against life”
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What is an “anti-biotic?” (in this case,
the life is not yours but that of a
bacterium)
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It is a chemical which literally means
“against dirt”
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What is an anti-septic? (septic=filth,
like a septic tank for poop)
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The type of bacteria that only infects
people who’s resistance is low or have
a gaping wound which could be
infected by even non-pathogens
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What is an “opportunistic bacterium?”
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This disease is anaerobic and
associated with puncture wounds only
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What is tetanus?
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Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples
of these
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What are “disinfectants?”
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It is an example of the most feared
nosicomial infection
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What is MRSA or methicillin resistent
staphlococcus aureus?
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The science that deals with the study
and culturing of organisms in order to
understand disease better
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What is microbiology(invented by Dr.
Robert Koch)?
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The type of chemical solution is used
for cold sterilization?
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What is a detergent?
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It is the place in the hospital where
patients with airborne bacteria are kept
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What is isolation?
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The nose, the eyes, the rectum and
skin are all potential parts of this link in
the chain of infection
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What are “portals of entry”?
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What HIPPA stands for
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What is “Health Insurance Portability
and Privacy Act”? (What you all just
got certificates in
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If mosquitos hatch their eggs in your
pond water outside your house,which
carry a rickettsia later to a host by a
portal of entry, then the pond with the
infected mosquito eggs becomes this
in the chain of infection cycles
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What is a reservoir?(anywhere
bacteria can live until they infect us)
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It is the serous lining of the abdominal
cavity
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What is the peritoneum?
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It means a bulging of one’s abdominal
wall
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What is a hernia?
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It means an interruption in the
continuity of the skin
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What is an ulcer?
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The state in which Fort Stockton, Fort
Davis and the McDonald Observatory
are all found
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Texas
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Of the following, syphilis, gonorrhea
and Chlamydia, the one that is most
common STD in the U.S.
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Chlamydia by far
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This type of microorganism is the only
one that makes beer, wine, cheese
and yoghurt
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What is yeast?
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Five routes for administering a
medication
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Orally, Intravenously, intramuscularly,
transdermally, sublingually, rectally,
subcutaneously, by inhalation
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The parasympathetic nervous system
relies on this as its unique
neurotransmitter
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What is acetylcholine?
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These two fibrils comprise the muscle
fiber
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What are actin and myosin?
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The Nodes of Ranvier assure this
rapid type of neural conduction
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What is “saltatory conduction”?
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The father of middle eastern medicine
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Rhazi al Razi
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The first craniotomy was probably
done by him
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Imhoptec
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Because of his work we have penicillin
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Who was Sir Alexander Fleming ?
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It means the “innermost portion” of
any organ
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What is the medulla?
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It is the type of cartilage found on the
epiphyses of long bones for
articulation
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What is hyaline cartilage?
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It is a type of fx associated with many
small fragments of bone left behind
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What is a comminuted fx?
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One tab prn hs means this
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Take one as needed at bedtime
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Three elements of a contract
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Offer, acceptance and consideration
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This specialist does biopsies and
autopsies
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What is a pathologist?
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To be DNR you’ll need this legal
document
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What is a living will?
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Petit mal and grand mal are the two
types of this
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What are epileptic seizures?
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Coordination, posture and balance are
derived from this site in the brain
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What is the cerebellum?
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A strep or staph infection on the skin of
a young child is commonly known as
this
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What is impetigo?
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The feared side effect of delayed tx of
children with streptococcal infections
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What is rheumatic fever (may lead to
heart valve damage and a murmur
requiring heart sx)
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Four signs of inflammation/infection
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Erythema, hyperthermia, edema, dolor
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The two cranial bones which anchor
the teeth
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What are the mandible and maxilla?
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Two cranial bones with sinus’
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Frontal and maxillary
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The kind of tooth #8 is
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What is an incisor?
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The type of structures one finds
smooth muscle in
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What are body organs?
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It is the number of wraps that every
pack going into the autoclave must
have and their names
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What are”two” including an outer nonsterile wrap layer and a sterile inner
wrap?
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The organization that has set the
guidelines for “standard precautions” in
hospitals and medical offices
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What is the center for disease control?
(CDC in Atlanta)?
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The type of organism that cannot live
outside a host’s body and alters it’s
host’s DNA when it infects them
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What is a virus?
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The procedure for treating a boil or
abscess surgically
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What is an incision and drainage?
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In order to determine which antibiotic
to use on a patient to treat an infection,
you’ll need to do this lab test first
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What is a culture and sensitivity?
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The doctor who utilized the first
antiseptic for surgeons prior to
operating
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Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?
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He is most famous for writing “the
Great Gatsby” but more recently wrote
a novel turned into a movie which was
nominated for 13 Oscars last year
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Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald author of
the “Curious Case of Benjamin
Button”?
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She sang the song “At Last” at the
inauguration of Obama to which he
and the first lady danced the first
dance together as the first couple
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Beyonce
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The oldest city in the U.S.
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St. Augustine, Florida
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The capital of California
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Sacramento
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The game played by the lead
character in the hit film Slumdog
Millionaire in which he won all his
money
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“So you want to be a millionaire”
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Best known as James Bond, his latest
film has him starring as a rebel fighter
in WW II called “Defiance”
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Who is Daniel Craig?
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What Keanu Reaves and Barack
Obama have in common
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Both are Hawaiians
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The minimum amount of brain you
would need to maintain vital signs
even if you are in a coma
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What is the medulla oblongata?
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The instrument you need to surgically
implant a band around a patient’s
esophagus in order to restrict their
eating
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What is a laparoscope? (“Lapar” is the
Greek word for “abdomen”)
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Complete this run; George, Paul, John
and -------
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Ringo
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The space between the surgeon and
the patient during sterile surgery is
called this
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The “golden area”.
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The definition of a calorie
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The amount of heat necessary to raise
the temperature of one liter of water,
one degree centigrade
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The outer portion of an organ
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The cortex
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Three side effects of cortisone
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Water retention, fat accumulation, less
resistance to disease, hypertension,
blanching of skin, elevated blood sugar
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Grave’s disease involves this
endocrine gland
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The thyroid
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What the origin of the word “trivia” is?
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In old Rome, where three roads (“via’s”
cross and folks exchanged gossip of
trivial information with each other
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The most common emetic
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ipecac
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You can continue to be a Cougar at
this college
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UH
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I hate flying airplanes: The “terminal”
sounds so final and deadly because
the word “terminal” also means
this……
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The END