Medical Jeopardy

Sterile Procedures

This type of bacteria are unable to grow in the presence of oxygen

What are anaerobic bacteria?

Lysol is an example of one

What is a disinfectant?

It is a machine that removes debris and dirt but does not disinfect or sterilize at all

What is an ultrasonic cleaner?

It is the number of layers of wrap that every pack for the autoclave must have

What is two? (outer one is for the non sterile nurse to open for the sterile nurse to then open for the surgeon)

Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in common

What are bacilli?

The two methods that are at work in the autoclave to kill microorganisms

What are high temperature and high pressure?

The time required to a proper surgical scrub

What is ten minutes? (for both the surgeon’s hands and the patient’s skin)

It is an inanimate surface that may carry microorganisms

What is a fomite?

It means a “hospital infection” generated by healthcare workers transmitted to patients

What is a “nosocomial” infection?

It is a type of bacterium that generally causes abscess formation and purulence.

What is staphlococcus?

It is an example of a disease caused by a spirochete

What is syphilis ( also cholera?

It is a group of diseases generally carried by insects

What are Rickettsiae? (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and typhus both carried by insects)

It is a dish commonly used to culture bacteria for identification

What is a Petri dish?

It is a machine used to keep bacteria growing overnight at body temperature

What is an incubator? (98.6 degree Fahrenheit and 37 degrees on the Celsius (centigrade) scale; i.e. normal human body temperature)

It is the name of the growth medium used in Petri dishes to grow bacteria

What is agar?

It is the seed-form of fungi that helps them survive inhospitable environments

What are spores?

It is the single most important method of breaking the chain of infection cycle

What is hand washing?

He is credited with creating the germ theory of disease

Who was Louis Pasteur?

He is credited with developing most of the culturing techniques we use in microbiology labs

Who was Robert Koch?

It is a chemical which literally means, “against life”

What is an “anti-biotic?” (in this case, the life is not yours but that of a bacterium)

It is a chemical which literally means “against dirt”

What is an anti-septic? (septic=filth, like a septic tank for poop)

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

What is an “opportunistic bacterium?”

This disease is anaerobic and associated with puncture wounds only

What is tetanus?

Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples of these

What are “disinfectants?”

It is an example of the most feared nosicomial infection

What is MRSA or methicillin resistent staphlococcus aureus?

The science that deals with the study and culturing of organisms in order to understand disease better

What is microbiology(invented by Dr. Robert Koch)?

The type of chemical solution is used for cold sterilization?

What is a detergent?

It is the place in the hospital where patients with airborne bacteria are kept

What is isolation?

The nose, the eyes, the rectum and skin are all potential parts of this link in the chain of infection

What are “portals of entry”?

What HIPPA stands for

What is “Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act”? (What you all just got certificates in

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

What is a reservoir?(anywhere bacteria can live until they infect us)

It is the serous lining of the abdominal cavity

What is the peritoneum?

It means a bulging of one’s abdominal wall

What is a hernia?

It means an interruption in the continuity of the skin

What is an ulcer?

The state in which Fort Stockton, Fort Davis and the McDonald Observatory are all found

Texas

Of the following, syphilis, gonorrhea and Chlamydia, the one that is most common STD in the U.S.

Chlamydia by far

This type of microorganism is the only one that makes beer, wine, cheese and yoghurt

What is yeast?

Five routes for administering a medication

Orally, Intravenously, intramuscularly, transdermally, sublingually, rectally, subcutaneously, by inhalation

The parasympathetic nervous system relies on this as its unique neurotransmitter

What is acetylcholine?

These two fibrils comprise the muscle fiber

What are actin and myosin?

The Nodes of Ranvier assure this rapid type of neural conduction

What is “saltatory conduction”?

The father of middle eastern medicine

Rhazi al Razi

The first craniotomy was probably done by him

Imhoptec

Because of his work we have penicillin

Who was Sir Alexander Fleming ?

It means the “innermost portion” of any organ

What is the medulla?

It is the type of cartilage found on the epiphyses of long bones for articulation

What is hyaline cartilage?

It is a type of fx associated with many small fragments of bone left behind

What is a comminuted fx?

One tab prn hs means this

Take one as needed at bedtime

Three elements of a contract

Offer, acceptance and consideration

This specialist does biopsies and autopsies

What is a pathologist?

To be DNR you’ll need this legal document

What is a living will?

Petit mal and grand mal are the two types of this

What are epileptic seizures?

Coordination, posture and balance are derived from this site in the brain

What is the cerebellum?

A strep or staph infection on the skin of a young child is commonly known as this

What is impetigo?

The feared side effect of delayed tx of children with streptococcal infections

What is rheumatic fever (may lead to heart valve damage and a murmur requiring heart sx)

Four signs of inflammation/infection

Erythema, hyperthermia, edema, dolor

The two cranial bones which anchor the teeth

What are the mandible and maxilla?

Two cranial bones with sinus’

Frontal and maxillary

The kind of tooth #8 is

What is an incisor?

The type of structures one finds smooth muscle in

What are body organs?

It is the number of wraps that every pack going into the autoclave must have and their names

What are”two” including an outer non-sterile wrap layer and a sterile inner wrap?

The organization that has set the guidelines for “standard precautions” in hospitals and medical offices

What is the center for disease control? (CDC in Atlanta)?

The type of organism that cannot live outside a host’s body and alters it’s host’s DNA when it infects them

What is a virus?

The procedure for treating a boil or abscess surgically

What is an incision and drainage?

In order to determine which antibiotic to use on a patient to treat an infection, you’ll need to do this lab test first

What is a culture and sensitivity?

The doctor who utilized the first antiseptic for surgeons prior to operating

Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?

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

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald author of the “Curious Case of Benjamin Button”?

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

Beyonce

The oldest city in the U.S.

St. Augustine, Florida

The capital of California

Sacramento

The game played by the lead character in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire in which he won all his money

“So you want to be a millionaire”

Best known as James Bond, his latest film has him starring as a rebel fighter in WW II called “Defiance”

Who is Daniel Craig?

What Keanu Reaves and Barack Obama have in common

Both are Hawaiians

The minimum amount of brain you would need to maintain vital signs even if you are in a coma

What is the medulla oblongata?

The instrument you need to surgically implant a band around a patient’s esophagus in order to restrict their eating

What is a laparoscope? (“Lapar” is the Greek word for “abdomen”)

Complete this run; George, Paul, John and -------

Ringo

The space between the surgeon and the patient during sterile surgery is called this

The “golden area”.

The definition of a calorie

The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one liter of water, one degree centigrade

The outer portion of an organ

The cortex

Three side effects of cortisone

Water retention, fat accumulation, less resistance to disease, hypertension, blanching of skin, elevated blood sugar

Grave’s disease involves this endocrine gland

The thyroid

What the origin of the word “trivia” is?

In old Rome, where three roads (“via’s” cross and folks exchanged gossip of trivial information with each other

The most common emetic

ipecac

You can continue to be a Cougar at this college

UH

I hate flying airplanes: The “terminal” sounds so final and deadly because the word “terminal” also means this……

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