Infection Control
A microorganism capable of causing infection and disease.
What is a Pathogen?
A place where a pathogen lives and multiplies.
What is a Reservoir?
Measures used to reduce and prevent the spread of pathogens.
What is Medical asepsis?
To put on.
What is Donning?
The final stage of HIV infection, in which infections, tumors, and central nervous system symptoms appear due to a weakened immune system that is unable to fight infection.
What is Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?
An infection that is limited to a specific location in the body and has local symptoms.
What is a localized infection?
Any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to leave.
What is a Portal of exit?
The state of being completely free of all microorganisms; also called sterile technique.
What is Surgical asepsis?
To take off.
What is doffing?
A virus that attacks the body’s immune system and gradually disables it; eventually can cause AIDS.
What is Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
An infection that travels through the bloodstream and is spread throughout the body, causing general symptoms.
What is a systemic infection?
The method of describing how a pathogen travels.
What is Mode of Transmission?
A federal government agency that makes rules to protect workers from hazards on the job.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
A method of infection prevention used when caring for persons who are infected or may be infected with certain infectious diseases.
What is Transmission-Based Precautions?
Inflammation of the liver caused by certain viruses and other factors, such as alcohol abuse, some medications, and trauma.
What is Hepatitis?
An infection acquired in a healthcare setting during the delivery of medical care.
What is a Healthcare-associated infection (HAI)?
Any body opening on an uninfected person that allows pathogens to enter.
What is Portal of entry?
A method of infection prevention in which all blood, body fluids, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes are treated as if they were infected with an infectious disease.
What is Standard Precautions?
Microorganisms, mostly bacteria, that are resistant to one or more antimicrobial agents that are commonly used for treatment.
What is Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs)?
Engineering controls: features incorporated in medical devices to make their use less hazardous.
What is Engineering controls?
he set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to prevent and control the spread of disease.
What is infection prevention?
An uninfected person who could become sick.
What is a Susceptible host?
Equipment that helps protect employees from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with workplace hazards.
What is Personal protective equipment (PPE)?
To keep something separate, or by itself.
What is Isolate?
Type of hepatitis that only affects a person that is diagnosed with Hepatitis B.
What is Hepatitis D?