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Definitons
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Topical | Petaining to a definite surface area; local.Generally refers to the application of a substance to the skin. |
| Anaphylactic shock | An immediate allergic reaction characterized by acute respiratory disdress, hypotension, edema, and rash. Anaphylactic shock can be life- threatening. |
| Anticoagulant | An agent that prevents or delays blood coagulation (clumping) |
| Hemophiliac | A person afflicted with a hereditary blood disease marked by greatly prolonged coagulation time, with consequent failure of the blood to clot and abnormal bleeding, sometimes accompained by joint swelling. |
| Syncope | A transient loss of consciousness resulting from an inadequate flow of blood to the brain. The patient expericence a generalized weakness of muscles, loss of postural ton, inability to continue standing, and loss of consciousness |
| Seizure | A sudden attack of pain, a diease, or certain symptoms. An epileptic attack; convulsion. |
| Hematoma | A swelling or mass of blood (usally clotted.)Confined to an organ tissue, or space that is caused by a break in a blood vessel. |
| Arterial blood Gas (ABGS) | Literally,any of the gases present in blood. Clinically, the determination of levels in the blood of oxygen and carbon dioxide. |
| Acide-Base Balance | The mechanisms by which the acidity and alkalinity of body fluids are kept in a state of equilibruim so that arterial blood is maintained at approximately a 7.35 to 7.45ph level. |
| Collateral circulation | A process allowing tissue to be suppiled with blood from an accessory vessel. |
| Arteriospasm | arteria(artery)+spasmos (covulsion)=arterialspasm |
| Bacteriemia | Bacteria in the blood |
| Septicemia | The presence of pathigenic microoganism in the blood. |
| Anaerobic | Pertaning to an anaerobe; able to live with out oxygen. |
| Aerobic | Living only in the presence of oxygen. Concerning an organismliving only in the presence of oxygen. |
| Analyte | A substance being analyzed, especially the method of chemical analysis. |
| Specific Gravity | The weight of a substance compared with the weight of an equal volume of water. The specific gravity of water is 1.000. |
| Void | To evacuate the bowels or bladder. |
| Catheterization | Use or passage of a catheter into a part, chamber, or cavity. |
| Suprapubic | located above the pubic arch. |
| Blood banking | The process of collecting whole blood and certain derived componets for processing, typing, and storing until needed for transfusion. |
| DOnor unit | A specific amount of blood, approximately 1 pint, supplied by a volunteer as part of a blood banking procedure. |
| Autologous Transfusion | Transfusion of blood donated by a patient before surgery or collected from a patient during surgery. |
| Vascular acess device (VAD) | Indwelling catheters are also called vasculars acess devices (VADS) VADS consist mainly of tubing inserted in to a main vein or artery is customarily the subclavian, which is located in the chest below the clavicle. VADS are usally inserted for administer |
| Central venous catheter (CVC) | A catheter inserted into the superior vena cava to permit intermittent or continous monitoring of central venous pressure and to facilitate collecting blood samples foe chemical analysis. |
| Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) | Catheter inserted into the pheripheral venous system (veins of an extremity) and then threaded into the centrial venous system. |
| Arterial line | A hemodynamic monitoring system consisting os a catheter in an artey connected to pressure tubing, a transducer and an electronic monitor It is used to measure systemic blood pressure and to provide ease of access for the drawing of blood for study of gas |
| Infection | The process and growth of a microoragnism that produce tissue damage. |
| Microorganism | A minute living body not perceptible to thr naked eye, such as bacterium or protozoan. |
| Microbe | A unicellular or small multicellular microscopic organism not visbile to the naked eye. |
| Nonpathogenic | A microbe which is nondiease producing |
| pathogenic | Capable of causing disease |
| Pathogen | An organism or substance capable of causing a diease, condition, or infection |
| Chain of infection | A sieries of related events that lead to an infection. |
| Causative organism | The organism responsible for causing an infection. |
| REservoir Host | Any person, animal, arthropod, plant, soil, os substance in which an infecectious agent normally lives reproduces ans depends on for survival that allow transmission to a suscepyible host. IN ESSENCE a reservoir host is breedind ground for transmission of |
| Carrier | A person who harbour a specific pathogenic orgaism has no discernible symptoms or sign of the diease condition or infection and is poteneially capable of spreading organism to others. |
| Means of exit | The route microorganisms can take to leave a host eyes, mouth, nose, open wound, blood |
| Susceptible Host | A person who has little resistance to an infectious disease. |
| Means of Transmission | The method by which microorganism can be transmitted from one host to another. The five main routes of transmission are contact ,droplets, airborne,common vechicle, and vector-borne. |
| personal protective equipment (PPE) | Disposeable glovew lab coats aprons and or protective face gear such as mask, goggles,with side shields, required by OSHA to be worne when handling body fluids. |
| Nosocomial | Infection acquired in a hospital |
| CBC | LAVENDER |
| CMP | GOLD SST |
| DILANTIN | PLAIN RED |
| TROPONIN | MINT/GREEN |
| CKMB | MINT/GREEN |
| H&H | LAVENDER |
| LIPASE | GOLD SST |
| MAGNESIUM | GOLD SST |
| ANTIBODY SCREEN | PLAIN RED |
| D-DIMER | LIGHT- BLUE |
| TSH | GOLD SST |
| SICKEL CELL | LAVENDER |
| LIPID PANEL | GOLD SST |
| GLOUCOSE FASTING | GOLD SST |
| HIV | PLAIN RED |
| TYPE& SCREEN | PLAIN RED |
| PT/PTT | LIGHT BLUE |
| BMP | MINT/GREEN, GOLD, SPECAL |
| BETA | GOLD SST |
| SED RATE | LAVENDER |
| ABG | ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES |
| CBC | COMPLET BLOOD COUNT |
| CMP | COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC PANEL |
| BMP | BASIC METABOLIC PANEL |
| HCT | HEMATOCRIT |
| HBG | HEMOGLOBIN |
| BUN | BLOOD UREA NITROGEN |
| HCG | HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN |
| HIV | HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT |
| K+ | POTASSIUM |
| Mg | MAGNESIUM |
| Na+ | SODIUM |
| PT | PROTHROMBIN TIME |
| PTT | PARTIAL THROMBO- PLASTIN TIME |
| RBC | RED BLOOD CELL COUNT |
| SED-Rate or ESR | ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMINTAION RATE |
| STEP | STREPTOCOCCUS |
| T&C | TYPE AND CROSS MATCH |
| TSH | THYROID PROFILE |
| UA | URINALYSIS |
| WBC | WHITE CELL COUNT |
| T&S | TYPE &SCREEN |
| BC | BLOOD CULTURE |
| C&S | CULTURE& SENSITIVITY |
| CRP | C-REACTION PROTEIN |
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