Infection Control

After successfully donning sterile gloves you will be sure to maintain their sterility by keeping your hands above your...

• elbows
• chin
• waist
• knees

You are pouring sterile saline into a sterile basin over a sterile field and accidentally splash a scant amount onto the sterile drape, what is your next step?

• Wipe it up with sterile gauze
• Start over with new sterile field
• Nothing, it is just a small amount and it is sterile saline so the field is not contaminated

__ is a set of specific practices and procedures performed t make equipment and areas free from all microorganisms and to maintain that sterility.

• sterile technique

• clean

• asepsis

• surgical asepsis

Sterile fields must always be kept in sight to be considered sterile.

• true

• false

a sterile object becomes non-sterile when touched by a non-sterile object.

• true

• false

Which of the following is NOT considered a good practice when disposing of needles?

• recapping the needles
• placing the used needles in a sharps container
• alerting supervisor if a needle stick occurs
• using a new needle every time 

_____ is defined as the absence of pathogens, or disease-causing microorganisms.

• Antiseptic
• Antibiotic
• Antiinfective
• Asepsis

Critical instruments are defined as instruments:

• That are used to penetrate soft tissue or bone
• That contact but do not penetrate soft tissue
• That contact but do not penetrate bone
• Or devices that do not come in contact with mucous membranes

In dental radiography, no ___ are used.
1.  Critical instruments
2. Semicritical instruments
3. Noncritical instruments

• 1,2,3
• 1,2
• 3 only
• 1 only

Which of the following are considered to be semicritical instruments?

• The exposure button
• The x-ray control panel
• The lead apron
• X-ray film-holding devices