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SURG 101: Introduction toSurgical Technology fully
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Slander - answer Verbal (oral) injury to person's reputation/ character by
willful statements made to a third person
Informed Consent - answer Physician's duty to inform patient of risks,
benefits, and possible complications
Assault - answer Intentional act intended to make another person fearful
Negligence - answer Breach of duty
Libel - answer Written injury to person's reputation/ character by willful
statements made to a third party
Tort - answer Civil wrongs which may result in lawsuits which reward
money to injured party
Reasonable Man - answer Patient has the right to expect that all patient
care personnel will use knowledge that meet standards exercised by other
reasonably prudent persons
Res Ipsa Lognitor - answer Court allows the patient's injury to stand as
proof of negligence
Respondent Superior - answer Employer may be liable for employee's
negligent act
,Malpractice - answer Any professional misconduct; which results in harm
to another
Abandonment - answer Caregiver leaves patient knowing there may be a
need for care during their absence
Aeger Primo - answer AST motto "The Patient First"
Invasion of Privacy - answer Patient's right to expect all communications
and records to remain confidential
Battery - answer Touching without authorization or consent, carrying out
of bodily harm; actual contact
Liable - answer Legally bound and responsible for personal actions
Perjury - answer Lying under oath
Surgical Technologist - answer A health professional who works closely
with surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses, and other surgical
personnel delivering patient care and assuming appropriate
responsibilities before, during, and after surgery
Cushing - answer The father of neurosurgery
Cushing - answer Reduced mortality rate for meningiomas from 96%- 5%
(1900s-current)
Reed - answer Found that Malaria is caused by a mosquito-transmitted
virus (1900s-current)
Reed - answer Walter Reed Army Medical Center named after him (1900s-
current)
, Kocher - answer Advanced our knowledge of thyroid function (1900s-
current)
Enders - answer Propagate the poliovirus in primary human cell cultures
(1900s-current)
Cooley - answer Perfected the heart-lung machine; preformed the first
U.S. heart transplant and first artificial heart implant (1950s)
DeBakey - answer Developed the first ventricular assist pump (1950s)
What were some technical advances in the 1980s? - answer Endoscopic
surgery; computer age; stereotactic approach to neurosurgery; virtual
reality
What association was formed in the 1950s? - answer Association of
Operating Room Nurses (AORN)
What decade educated operating room technicians in the U.S. military? -
answer 1950s
What decade was the Association of Surgical Technologists (AST) created
and the decade where the approval of the education program for the OR
technician was adopted? - answer 1970s
Association of Surgical Technologists (AST) - answer the nonprofit national
professional membership organization for surgical technologists and
surgical assistants
What decade was the Code of Ethics published? - answer 1980s
Code of Ethics - answer guidelines, expressed in a series of statements
that provide ethical standards of conduct for a profession
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