LESSON 3.1
The idea that organisms can spread through airborne droplets when someone with the infection coughs or sneezes, or through shared food or drinks. You can also pick up the organism from a surface and transfer them to your nose or mouth.
What is transmission of disease?
Assessment that determines the nature of the primary complaint and rule out, prioritize, and treat any immediate life-threatening airway, breathing and circulation problems.
What is a primary assessment?
A software application, especially one that a user downloads to a mobile device.
What is an app?
Disease transmission that occurs when a susceptible host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect.
What is direct contact?
Medical doctors that oversee the diagnosis, management and prevention of infection. They're also scientists, who may drive research on various aspects of viruses.
What is a virologist?
A branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, causes, and control of health problems in a population.
What is epidemology?
Delivers medicine into the tissue layer under the skin and above the muscle. Used to deliver medicine quickly, but it takes longer to go into effect than IV as it needs time to diffuse into the body.
What is a subcutaneous injection?
A representative consumer for whom a hardware or software product is designed.
What is an end-user?
A disease perpetually present in a community or population within a specific geographic area. For example, malaria is endemic to parts of Africa, South America, and Asia.
What is an endemic?
Someone who investigates health-related matters such as disease outbreaks and chronic illnesses by gathering information, examining data, and looking for patterns.
Who are epidemiologists?
Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that we are born with. These mechanisms work to keep anything outside of us from coming in.
What is innate immunity?
What caused the trauma, or physical damage, to the patient’s body.
What is the mechanism of injury (MOI)?
Designing an app based on the needs of the user is called
What is user-centered design?
A measure of the elasticity of the skin and is used as an indicator of dehydration.
What is a skin turgor?
A scientist who investigates the growth, structure, development, and other characteristics of microorganisms, such as bacteria.
what is a microbiologist?
An infection acquired in a hospital; also known as a hospital-acquired infection or HAI.
What is a nosocomial infection?
A device that applies extra pressure to the vessels within an arm or leg to slow the flow of blood to that limb.
What is a tourniquet?
The visual display of a computer app or operating system, through which an end user interacts with the computing device or software.
What is a user interface?
The establishment of a disease-causing microorganism within a host.
What is an infection?
Scientists who validate and develop models for interaction between people and computers or software and devices.
What is a computer scientist?
The cause of a disease or condition.
What is etiology?
An assessment that is used in order to determine the injury, how the injury occurred, how severe the injury is, and to eliminate further injury.
What is a secondary assessment?
Touching a button, dragging an image, or typing into a text box within an app.
What are user actions?
Occurs when the number of new patients challenges or exceeds a hospital’s ability to serve all of them.
What is a medical surge?
Therapists that place IVs in patients, administer IV medications and fluids, and document and monitor patients’ progress.
What is an IV Therapist?