Equipment quality assurance programs, preventive maintenance schedules, and operating room safety protocols tested on the Cer.A.T. certification exam.
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- The primary goal of an anesthesia equipment quality assurance program
- Ensuring consistent, safe equipment function to prevent patient harm
- A preventive maintenance schedule is designed to
- Service equipment at regular intervals to catch problems before they cause failure
- A key component of an operating room fire safety protocol
- Managing the fire triangle by controlling oxidizers, ignition sources, and fuel
- The three elements of the operating room fire triangle
- An oxidizer, an ignition source, and fuel
- A common oxidizer contributing to operating room fires
- Supplemental oxygen or nitrous oxide
- A common ignition source in operating room fires
- Electrocautery devices or lasers
- Waste anesthetic gas (WAG) scavenging systems exist to
- Remove excess anesthetic gases from the operating room to protect staff from chronic exposure
- OSHA-recommended exposure limits for waste anesthetic gases aim to reduce staff risk of
- Chronic occupational exposure effects, such as reproductive and neurologic concerns
- A negative pressure leak test on the anesthesia machine checks for
- Leaks in the low-pressure system between the flow control valves and the common gas outlet
- A pipeline gas supply pressure alarm typically triggers when pressure falls below
- Approximately 45 psi
- Color coding for medical gas cylinders in the United States assigns which color to oxygen
- Green
- The diameter index safety system (DISS) and pin index safety system exist to
- Prevent accidental connection of the wrong medical gas to equipment or cylinders
- A key safety reason to check the oxygen fail-safe (pressure sensor shutoff) system
- It cuts off other gas flow if oxygen supply pressure drops, preventing delivery of a hypoxic mixture
- The purpose of an oxygen analyzer on the anesthesia machine's inspiratory limb
- Continuously verifying the actual delivered oxygen concentration to prevent a hypoxic gas mixture
- A root cause analysis after an anesthesia-related adverse event aims to
- Identify underlying system failures rather than assign individual blame, to prevent recurrence
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