{"id":4689,"date":"2025-07-27T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:46:32","slug":"central-sterile-services-css-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/central-sterile-services-css-aide\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"American Board of Allied Health, Central Sterile Services (CSS) Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/\">\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0631\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0643\u064a<\/a><\/span> of Allied Health, Central Sterile Services (CSS) Aide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><b>Central Sterile Services (CSS) Aide<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b><\/b><strong><b>Duration:<\/b><\/strong>3 Hours<\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><strong><b>Exam Code:<\/b><\/strong>STE5653<\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><strong><b>Number of Questions:<\/b><\/strong>150<\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><strong><b>Passing Score:<\/b><\/strong>50%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><b>Exam Coverage:<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Overview of the CSSD (Central Sterile Services Department) and Decontamination<\/li>\n<li>Principles of Asepsis, Microbiology, and Infection Control<\/li>\n<li>Transportation of Solid Items to CSSD and Disinfection Process<\/li>\n<li>Processing Equipment and Classification of Surgical Instrument Types<\/li>\n<li>Inventory Control, Sterile Storage, and Planned Maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Preparation, Packaging, and Labeling of Instruments and Devices<\/li>\n<li>Sterilization, Maintenance, Audit, and Quality Control<\/li>\n<li>Flexible Endoscope and Dental Instrument Processing<\/li>\n<li>Use of Indicators, Load Control, and Transportation from the CSSD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><b>Recommended References:<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><b><\/b>Medical Device Reprocessing (Decontamination Specialist), Course Curriculum.<\/li>\n<li><b><i><\/i><\/b><em><i>The Basics of Sterile Processing<\/i><\/em>, Nancy Chobin, Sterile Processing University LLC, New Jersey, Latest Edition.<\/li>\n<li><b><i><\/i><\/b><em><i>Central Service Technical Manual<\/i><\/em>, N. Lind; J.D. Ninemeier, International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management, Latest Edition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Board of Allied Health, Central Sterile Services (CSS) Aide Central Sterile Services (CSS) Aide Duration:3 Hours Exam Code:STE5653 Number &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/central-sterile-services-css-aide\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-159"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-board.us\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}