It is critical that all personnel working in surgery, or those working with surgical supplies and equipment, understand the process of sterilization.  Any contamination of the patient’s body tissue with nonsterile instruments can lead to ___.

Which of the following statements best describes the care the surgical technologist must take during the handling of patient body secretions and excretions?

In preparation for abdominal surgery, intact skin should be washed and painted ____.

Surgical lights are very expensive and should be cleaned only after ___.

Ethylene oxide and ___ processes use bacterial spores of bacillus atrophaeus as biological indicators.

At the end of the washer-sterilizer cycle, instruments are not considered ___.

Regardless of the job description of the personnel participating in the clean-up following a surgical procedure, all personnel must ___.

A resident bacterium usually found on the hands or in the nose is ___.

____ is when an organism that lives within or upon another organism (host), where the organism benefits and the host is harmed.

Steam sterilization can be performed at ___ degrees.