Infectious Diseases
This bacterium contaminates the environment in its spore form.
What is C. difficile?
The department responsible for reprocessing
What is Sterile Processing?
These are used for select patients with specific diseases or pathogens.
What are Transmission-based Precautions?
A table used in statistics, with two outcome columns and two exposure rows.
What is a 2 by 2 table?
The most common bacteria that causes foodborne illnesses.
What is Salmonella?
It is a highly communicable respiratory disease that occurs in epidemic cycles every 2-5 years.
What is Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough)?
The only process indicator that directly monitors the lethality of a given sterilization process.
What is a “biological indicator”?
Guidelines that outline the minimum set of interventions that are required for preventing the transmission of microorganisms.
What is Standard Precautions?
The lower portion of a fraction; used in calculating ratios, proportions, and rates.
What is a denominator?
The required timeline after ingesting Salmonella-contaminated foods for symptoms to appear.
What is 6 hours to 6 days?
The definitive diagnosis of this parasite is by micro exam of skin scrapings.
What is scabies?
Where the reprocessing of contaminated equipment or instruments begins by the end user by removing gross soil and debris.
What is "point of use cleaning"?
Requires a negative air room with at least 6-12 air exchanges per hour that exhausts directly to outside.
What is Airborne Precautions?
The ability of a test or other surveillance method to identify true cases.
What is sensitivity?
When two or more persons experience a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food.
What is the definition of a foodborne-disease outbreak?
These human parasites feed on blood usually at night.
What are bed bugs?
This is the process used for reprocessing endoscopes and ultra sound probes.
What is High Level Disinfection?
Used to limit spread of bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis.
What is Droplet Precautions?
The number or proportion of cases or events present in a given population.
What is prevalence?
The timeframe that perishable foods may sit out before needing to be refrigerated.
What is two hours?
The process by which small genetic mutations in a replicating influenza virus alter the surface proteins of the virus.
What is an "antigenic" drift?
Originally known as “flash sterilization”, this process is considered riskier than sterilization in the Sterile Processing Dept.
What is Immediate Use Steam Sterilization? (IUSS)
Used for allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.
What is Protective Environment Precautions?
A testable (falsifiable) potential relationship between variables.
What is the "hypothesis"?
Food service staff who do not perform proper hand washing and use bare-hand food contact practices.
What are the leading contributing factors that cause foodborne illness?