A continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is used to promote healing and flexibility in the knee and hip joint and increase circulation to the operative area. Select all of the following that are true about the use of CPM.
• The physician orders the amount of extension and flexion produced by the machine.
• The physician orders the frequency of use of the machine.
• The amount of flexion for clients with hip replacements should never exceed 30° in the CPM machine.

Disinfection of impression materials is usually accomplished by a. sterilization with high heat. b. spray or immersion in a chemical disinfectant. c. sterilization with steam under pressure. d. allowing the impression to sit 24 hours in water until all the organisms die.

Efficiency is the percent of work put into a machine by the user (input work) that becomes work done by the machine (output work)

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.