BUZZ IN Audience response devices let you submit answers for your team.

Are you the answer person at your facility? Would you run the board if Surgical Excellence were a Jeopardy category? Do people sometimes shake their heads and marvel at the vast store of information you have locked inside your brain? Then help carry your team to victory at the ORX Tournament of Champions.

It's a crowd favorite every year, with a fast-paced game-show format that pits teams of attendees against each other and gives you the chance to prove your mental mettle.

With your audience interactive clicker in hand, you'll have 10 seconds to answer questions on OR safety, infection prevention and business management, among other categories.

Members of the winning team will walk away with a cool prize. How will your team fare? Test your knowledge with these sample questions from recent years' competitions.

1. What are the 3 components of the
Joint Commission's Universal Protocol?
a. clean, decontaminate, sterilize
b. mask, gown, gloves
c. verify, mark, time out
d. lather, rinse, repeat

2. True or false: Every week in the U.S., 40 surgical patients
suffer wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure errors.

3. Which type of injury is responsible for the
most lost workdays among healthcare employees?
a. needlesticks or sharps injuries
b. carpal tunnel syndrome
c. slips, trips and falls
d. overexertion

4. True or false: All antiseptic skin prep
products are sterile until the packaging is opened.

5. Which of the following details is not
required to be noted on a medication syringe's label?
a. drug name
b. date and time it was drawn
c. drug expiration date
d. drug strength

6. Which of these is not a risk factor for unplanned hypothermia?
a. old age
b. male gender
c. systolic blood pressure of less than 140 mm Hg
d. high BMI
e. none of the above
f. both b and d

7. Which method of low temperature
sterilization has the shortest cycle time?
a. gas plasma
b. ethylene oxide gas
c. ozone
d. none of the above