Medical Jeopardy
Sterile Procedures
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This type of bacteria are unable to
grow in the presence of oxygen
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What are anerobic bacteria?
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Lysol is an example of one
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What is a disinfectant?
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It is a machine that removes debris
and dirt but does not disinfect or
sterilize at all
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What is an ultrasonic cleaner or
“sterilizer?”
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Two famous people worked in
Springfield, one is imaginary and the
other used to be a governor there
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Homer Simpson and Barack Obama
(Springfield is the capital of Illinois)
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It is the number of layers of wrap that
every pack for the autoclave must
have and the time a surgeon should
scrub
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What is two layers and ten minutes?
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The universal antiseptic used in
surgery
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Betadine (generic name is povidone
iodine)
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Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in
common
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What are bacilli?
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If Dr. Robert Koch invites you to
dinner, make sure he doesn’t serve
you on these plates
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What is a Petri dish?
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The two modalities that are at work in
the autoclave to kill microorganisms
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What are high temperature and high
pressure?
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The method of sterilizing rubber gloves
and catheter plastic tubing
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Gas sterilization using ethylene oxide
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It is an inanimate surface that may
carry microorganisms
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What is a fomite?
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It is the nutrient substance common for
microbiologists to grow bacteria
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What is Agar?
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Peroxide will kill this bacterium
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What is tetanus? (anerobic growth only
hence in puncture wounds only)
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It means “hospital infection”
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What is “nosocomial”?
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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
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Who is Marisa Tomei?
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This organization follows the course of
epidemics to monitor them and their
possible causes
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Center for Disease Control in Atlanta,
Georgia
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All medical waste is ultimately
disposed of by this process
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What is incineration?
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He broke all records of attendance at
the Houston Livestock and Rodeo last
night with over 80,000 paid
attendances
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Who is George Strait?
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The consequence that might occur in
young people who ignore a strep
throat
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Rheumatic fever and resulting heart
valve damage
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Tinactin, Lotrimin and Desenex are all
examples of what kind of medication?
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Fungicides (yeast and mold killers)
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A bacterium that produces a toxin
(poison) that is marketed for cosmetic
reasons when injected.
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Botulism toxin from the botulism
bacterium paralyzes muscles hence
the name “Botox” (so you don’t look so
wrinkled from contracting facial
muscles)
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Botulism and Tetanus toxins are
almost identical
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Bacteria that are no longer susceptible
to our antibiotics belong to a group
known as these
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What are “superbugs?”
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The first discovered superbug is
known by this abbreviation
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What is a “MRSA” or “methicillin
resistant staphlococcus aureaus” also
known as “hospital staph” or “flesh
eating staph”
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By graduating this university, you can
become a member of the alumni
association known as “The 12th Man
Club”
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What is Texas A & M?
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Rats probably pooped in your water
supply to transmit this bacterial
disorder to you
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What is cholera?
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The process by which yeast fungi
convert wheat to beer
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What is fermentation?
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It is a type of bacterium that generally
causes abscess formation and pus
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What is staphlococcus?
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How you know a surgical pack on the
shelf was definitely autoclaved
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The indicator tape on the pack turns
dark and has visible stripes
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The three things you need to write on
the sterile pack when storing it
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The contents and the date of
sterilization and your name being the
responsible person for its sterility
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They both have an album called “Red”
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Taylor Swift and Ne-Yo
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When the fertility doctors talks about
being sterile, they mean this
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Having no sex cells (sperm or eggs)
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Two Texas college teams that wear
red jerseys
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UH and Texas Tech (Cougars and
Red Raiders)
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How long the average shelf life is for
an autoclaved surgical pack
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Sixty days
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Their mascot is a “horned toad:”
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Texas Christian University in Fort
Worth
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Leonardo looked a little cyanotic at the
end of this one
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Titanic
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Two examples of a diseases caused
by a spirochetes
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What are syphilis and cholera?
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It is a type of bacterium generally
carrying diseases by insects
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What are Ricketsiae?
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Germ theory was not possible without
the invention of this scientist to
visualize microorganisms
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Who was Anton Van Leuvanhoeck,
and his microscope?
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It is a machine used to keep bacteria
growing overnight at body temperature
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What is an incubator?
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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
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Streptococcus
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It is the seed form for fungi
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What are spores?
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He passed out from exhaustion and
dehydration in London last week
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Justin Bieber
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It is the name of the roots that grow
from a spore when you warm it,
moisturize it and keep it away from
sunlight
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Hyphae (fungi roots). They grow into
your skin causing allergic itching
reactions like athlethe’s foot, yeast
infections (girls) and jock itch (guys)
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It is the single most important method
of breaking the chain of infection cycle
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What is hand washing?
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He is credited with creating the germ
theory of disease
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Who was Louis Pasteur?
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He is credited with developing most of
the culturing techniques we use in
microbiology labs
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Who was Robert Koch?(founder of
microbiology)
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It is a chemical which literally means,
“against life”
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What is an antibiotic? Life in this case
referring to living microorganisms
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It is a chemical which literally means
“against dirt”
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What is an antiseptic? (chemicals used
to clean wounds) while disinfectants
only clean fomites (surfaces of
inanimate objects like desks and walls
and floors)
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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
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What are opportunistic bacteria?
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This disease is both anerobic and
associated with puncture wounds only
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What is tetanus?
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Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples
of these
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What are disinfectants?
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It is the technical name for a hospital
given infection
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What is a nosocomial infection?
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Who recently almost died from an
overdose of “lean”?
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L’l Wayne
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The type of chemical solution is used
for cold “sterilization”?
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What is a detergent? (this is not
sterilizing at all but more like
“sanitizing” a little)
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It is the place in the hospital where
patients with airborne communicable
bacteria are kept
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What is isolation or “wound isolation”;
used to be called “quarantine”
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It is an “obligate intracellular parasite”
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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
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What Grey’s Anatomy was before it
was a TV show, or why the name?
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The name of the most famous
textbook of human anatomy used in all
medical schools
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The two types of glands in the skin
(medical names only)
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Sebacceous and suderiferous (sweat)
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The organization that has set the
guidelines for “standard precautions” in
hospitals and medical offices
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What is the center for disease control?
(CDC)
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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
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What is a virus?
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The factors essential for fungi to grow
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Moisture, warmth and darkness
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What Joliet, San Quentin and Sing
Sing all have in common
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All are famous prisons
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The name of the angular cut on the
end of an injecting needle
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What is the bevel?
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The doctor who utilized the first
antiseptic for surgeons prior to
operating
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Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?
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An MD who specializes in PT
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Physiatrist
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She was proposed to at the Taj Mahal
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Katie Perry
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What malpractice is legally
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Case of civil negligence
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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?
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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
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They help families in need
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MSW’s
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The person who sues a defendant in a
civil lawsuit is called this
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The plaintiff
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He/she decides matters of law, not
guilt, during a court case
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The judge
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It means a narrowing of a blood vessel
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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.
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It takes place in “Forks”
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Twilight
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It means a widening of a blood vessel
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What is an aneurysm? (or vasodilation
if due to ethanol, relaxation, warmth)
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It means this game is over
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The End