Prevention of Infection Transmission
In the case of an accidental needle stick, the healthcare worker will immediately take this first step.
Decontaminate the needlestick site with soap and water or an appropriate antiseptic for 30 seconds.
Inanimate objects that can harbor infectious agents and transmit infection.
What are fomites?
The body cavity that houses the lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
The term that refers to the front part of the body.
What is ventral?
Agency of the U.S. Department of Labor that requires employers to provide measures that will protect workers exposed to biological hazards.
What is OSHA?
Chemicals that are used to remove or kill pathogenic microorganisms.
What are disinfectants?
A test used for the evaluation for parasites.
What is O & P?
The protective membrane layers around the brain and spinal cord containing spinal fluid.
What are the meninges?
STD
What is the abbreviation for Sexually Transmitted Disease?
CDC
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Condition patient would have which would require reverse isolation to be used.
What are immunodeficiency disorders?
Number of patients who acquire a nosocomial infection annually.
What is1.75 - 3 million?
Tuberculosis is considered a disease of this body system.
What is the respiratory system?
This is a degenerative disorder of the nervous system that is characterized by hand tremors, loss of facial expression, and a shuffling walk.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Set in place to designate the reduction of risk for transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognized sources of infection in health care facilities. (not an organization, but a procedure)
What are Standard Precautions?
Transmission-based precautions include protection recommendations for these ways (3) of spreading known or suspected infections in the HICPAC.
What are airborne, droplet and contact precautions?
What ESRD stands for which is caused by glomerulonephritis, tubular diseases, hypertension, and other conditions.
What is end-stage renal disease?
This contains blood vessels to transport blood from inside the bone to the outer layer. (hint: page 184)
What is the periosteum?
"Tail" of the sperm allowing movement.
What is the flagellum?
HICPAC stands for and monitors this.
What is the Hospital Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee who monitor infection rates and other indices that assess transmission of infection?
In the "chain of infection" this term would describe the patient who is carrying the pathogen.
This is what the blood pH level does as the CO2 levels increase.
What is decreases and becomes more acidic?
The three regions of the vertebrae that the spinal cord runs though.
What are the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar?
Term using the prefix "endo" word root "card" and suffix "itis" would have this meaning. (endocarditis)
What is inflammation within the heart?
NIOSH stands for and is.
National Institue for Occupational Safety and Health
(a part of the CDC, a federal agency that establishes/ enforces guidelines for safe work practices)
A patient with a known active airborne infection will be place in a hospital room with this type of air pressure.
What is negative?
The most important procedure in the prevention of disease transmission in health care institutions.
What is handwashing?
Name of the organ system that has a primary function of protection.
What is the Integumentary System?
Structure that governs the functions of the individual cell, such as growth, repair, reproduction, and metabolism.
What is the nucleus?
Oversees the investigation and control of various diseases, especially those that are communicable.
What is the CDC?