Medical Jeopardy

Sterile Procedures

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

What are anerobic 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 or “sterilizer?”

Two famous people worked in Springfield, one is imaginary and the other used to be a governor there

Homer Simpson and Barack Obama (Springfield is the capital of Illinois)

It is the number of layers of wrap that every pack for the autoclave must have and the time a surgeon should scrub

What is two layers and ten minutes?

The universal antiseptic used in surgery

Betadine (generic name is povidone iodine)

Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in common

What are bacilli?

If Dr. Robert Koch invites you to dinner, make sure he doesn’t serve you on these plates

What is a Petri dish?

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

What are high temperature and high pressure?

The method of sterilizing rubber gloves and catheter plastic tubing

Gas sterilization using ethylene oxide

It is an inanimate surface that may carry microorganisms

What is a fomite?

It is the nutrient substance common for microbiologists to grow bacteria

What is Agar?

Peroxide will kill this bacterium

What is tetanus? (anerobic growth only hence in puncture wounds only)

It means “hospital infection”

What is “nosocomial”?

She acted in the films The Wrestler, Wild Hogs, My Cousin Vinnie and was won an Oscar for best supporting actress in My Cousin Vinnie

Who is Marisa Tomei?

This organization follows the course of epidemics to monitor them and their possible causes

Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia

All medical waste is ultimately disposed of by this process

What is incineration?

The consequence that might occur in young people who ignore a strep throat

Rheumatic fever and resulting heart valve damage

Tinactin, Lotrimin and Desenex are all examples of what kind of medication?

Fungicides (yeast and mold killers)

A bacterium that produces a toxin (poison) that is marketed for cosmetic reasons when injected.

Botulism toxin from the botulism bacterium paralyzes muscles hence the name “Botox” (so you don’t look so wrinkled from contracting facial muscles)

Botulism and Tetanus toxins are almost identical

Bacteria that are no longer susceptible to our antibiotics belong to a group known as these

What are “superbugs?”

The first discovered superbug is known by this abbreviation

What is a “MRSA” or “methicillin resistant staphlococcus aureaus” also known as “hospital staph” or “flesh eating staph”

By graduating this university, you can become a member of the alumni association known as “The 12th Man Club”

What is Texas A & M?

Rats probably pooped in your water supply to transmit this bacterial disorder to you

What is cholera?

The process by which yeast fungi convert wheat to beer

What is fermentation?

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

What is staphlococcus?

How you know a surgical pack on the shelf was definitely autoclaved

The indicator tape on the pack turns dark and has visible stripes

The three things you need to write on the sterile pack when storing it

The contents and the date of sterilization and your name being the responsible person for its sterility

They both have an album called “Red”

Taylor Swift and Ne-Yo

When the fertility doctors talks about being sterile, they mean this

Having no sex cells (sperm or eggs)

Two Texas college teams that wear red jerseys

UH and Texas Tech (Cougars and Red Raiders)

How long the average shelf life is for an autoclaved surgical pack

Sixty days

Their mascot is a “horned toad:”

Texas Christian University in Fort Worth

Leonardo looked a little cyanotic at the end of this one

Titanic

Two examples of a diseases caused by a spirochetes

What are syphilis and cholera?

It is a type of bacterium generally carrying diseases by insects

What are Ricketsiae?

Germ theory was not possible without the invention of this scientist to visualize microorganisms

Who was Anton Van Leuvanhoeck, and his microscope?

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

What is an incubator?

The microscope slide showed the purulence (pus) had a string of pearls of round bacteria; you can diagnose this before a C & S as this

Streptococcus

It is the seed form for fungi

What are spores?

It is the name of the roots that grow from a spore when you warm it, moisturize it and keep it away from sunlight

Hyphae (fungi roots). They grow into your skin causing allergic itching reactions like athlethe’s foot, yeast infections (girls) and jock itch (guys)

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?(founder of microbiology)

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

What is an antibiotic? Life in this case referring to living microorganisms

It is a chemical which literally means “against dirt”

What is an antiseptic? (chemicals used to clean wounds) while disinfectants only clean fomites (surfaces of inanimate objects like desks and walls and floors)

The type of bacteria that only infects people who’s resistance is low or have a gaping wound which could be infected by non-pathogens even

What are opportunistic bacteria?

This disease is both anerobic and associated with puncture wounds only

What is tetanus?

Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples of these

What are disinfectants?

It is the technical name for a hospital given infection

What is a nosocomial infection?

Who recently almost died from an overdose of “lean”?

L’l Wayne

The type of chemical solution is used for cold “sterilization”?

What is a detergent? (this is not sterilizing at all but more like “sanitizing” a little)

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

What is isolation or “wound isolation”; used to be called “quarantine”

It is an “obligate intracellular parasite”

A virus; a piece of DNA or RNA that infests the DNA of a host’s nucleus or cytoplasm and kills it ultimately or may cause cancer

What Grey’s Anatomy was before it was a TV show, or why the name?

The name of the most famous textbook of human anatomy used in all medical schools

The two types of glands in the skin (medical names only)

Sebacceous and suderiferous (sweat)

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

What is the center for disease control? (CDC)

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

What is a virus?

The factors essential for fungi to grow

Moisture, warmth and darkness

What Joliet, San Quentin and Sing Sing all have in common

All are famous prisons

The name of the angular cut on the end of an injecting needle

What is the bevel?

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

Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?

An MD who specializes in PT

Physiatrist

She was proposed to at the Taj Mahal

Katie Perry

What malpractice is legally

Case of civil negligence

You want to become a health care worker but don’t want to spend four years in medical school but still want to examine and treat patients in offices and hospitals under the supervision of an MD. What field is for you?

Physician assistant (also known as nurse practitioner is you want to go through nursing school). Both require seven years of training, BS degree plus three years of graduate training, earn about $100,000 per year. One is coming to visit us Thursday who graduated KHS and practices in Katy

They help families in need

MSW’s

The person who sues a defendant in a civil lawsuit is called this

The plaintiff

He/she decides matters of law, not guilt, during a court case

The judge

It means a narrowing of a blood vessel

What is a stenosis (if lumen is blocked with arteriosclerosis permanently) or “vasoconstriction” if due to epinephrine, caffeine, cocaine or nicotine substances, cold, and is temporary.

It takes place in “Forks”

Twilight

It means a widening of a blood vessel

What is an aneurysm? (or vasodilation if due to ethanol, relaxation, warmth)

It means this game is over

The End