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Incurable viral infection transmitted via skin-to-skin contact from open sores of an infected person.
What is Genital Herpes (HSV-2)?
Precautions used when caring for a patient with C. diff.
What are Contact Precautions (Gown and Gloves)?
Accomplished by an autoclve.
What is sterilization?
Pathogens travel through liquid mist expelled from mouth or nose of infected person (i.e. the Flu).
What is droplet transmission?
Viral infection spread through the saliva of mammalian vectors.
What is rabies?
Infection cause by a bacteria named Neisseria gonorrhoeae commonly known as "the clap."
What is Gonorrhea?
Daily Double!
The terms attributed to William Shakespeare that means to put on and take off PPE.
What are Don and Doff?
Chemical process that kills most pathogens but not spores, like C. diff.
What is disinfection?
The term that refers to animals that carry a disease that can be transmitted to humans (i.e. bats, rats, cats, moquitoes, raccoons, etc.).
Hint: The real bad guy in Despicable Me shares this name...
What is a Vector?
Contageous skin infestation caused by tiny mites that causes a pimple-like raised rash that is often very irritating.
What is Scabies?
Bacterial STD caused by Treponema pallidum that frequently mimics other diseases and affects multiple organ systems.
What is Syphilis?
PPE that should be worn for a patient with the flu (droplet precautions).
What are gown, gloves, and mask?
Physical removal of visible particulate matter from an object, but does not necessarily kill pathogens.
What is sanitization?
Mode of transmission involving a fine aerosol-like mist that is relatively unaffected by gravity that transmits microscopic pathogens, like Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
What is airborne transmission?
Virus that causes Chicken Pox and Shingles.
What is Varicella Zoster (VZV or Herpes Zoster)?
Most common bacterial STD that often produces very few symptoms for several weeks after exposure. Known by the common slang term, "the clam."
What is Chlamydia?
Minimum infection control precautions utilized for every patient in the hospital to prevent infection.
What are Standard Precautions?
Alcohol-based hand rubs/sanitizers are considered a type of this class of cleaning agents.
What are disinfectants?
An inanimate object that carries a pathogen with the potential to spread to a human host (phone, doorknob, bedding, etc.).
What is a fomite?
Daily Double!
Causes Cold Sores or Fever Blisters.
What is Herpes Simplex Type 1 (HSV 1)?
Viral STD that is THE most common STD. Most sexually active individuals contract at least one form of this virus. Can cause genital warts and some cancers.
Hint: there is a vaccine available for several forms of the virus.
What is Human Papillomavirus (HPV)?
This type of mask must be worn when caring for a patient on airborne precautions (i.e. a TB patient).
What is a N95 mask/respirator?
The temperature necessary to kill pathogens (including bacterial spores) in an autoclave.
What is 121 degrees Celsius or 250 degrees Fahrenheit?
"Achoooooo!!!" "Cough, cough!!!" These are examples of this kind of transmission.
What is droplet transmission?
This disease is often associated with pirates.
What is Scabies?