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CH 22 infection
Infection control/medical asepsis/sterilization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Microbiology | study of microorganisms |
| Microorganisms | tiny plants and animals that you can't see with the naked eye |
| Pathogenic | disease causing |
| Non-pathogenic | normal flora and fauna |
| Where are nonpathogenic microorganisms found? | surface of skin, GI track, respitory, and GU track |
| Infection | invasion and multiplication of pathogenic organisms in the body |
| Symptoms of infection | heat, swelling, pain, redness |
| What is the shape of Cocci | round |
| What is the shape of Bacilli | Rod, twinkee |
| What is the shape of Spirilla | Spiral |
| What are the three subgroups with Cocci | diplococci, steptococci, and staphlococci |
| What diseases are assosiated with diplococci? | ganarria |
| What diseases are assosiated with steptococci? | strepthoat |
| what diseases are assosiated with staphlococcsi? | pimples |
| What diseases are assosiated with bacilli? | TB, Typhoid, tetness |
| What diseases are assosiated with Spirilla? | sypholis |
| What is a virus | smallest living organisum |
| How can we see viruses? | using an eletron microscope |
| what is Protozoa? | largest one cell micoorganism causes malaria |
| What is Epidemiology? | Science study of incidents, distribution, and contyrol of diseases |
| What is communicable disease? | transferable to one person to another |
| what is communicable period | time when an infectious agent can be transferred |
| what is incubation time? | time between exposure to first symptoms |
| What is direct transmission | actual contact with pt. or their fluids |
| what is indirect transmission | it occurs through infectous droplets in the air |
| what is nosocomial | hospital aquired infection |
| what is the chair of infection in order? | infectious agent, resevoir host, means of exit, means of transmission, means of entry, susceptible host |
| factors contributing to low resistance | pour health, pour hygine, pour nutrition, and age |
| what does coughing and sneezing do? | focefully expells microorganisums |
| What is Cilia and what does it do for us? | small hairs that capture and expell bad things from your respitory tract. |
| what does tears and sweat do? | help remove disease causing pathogens |
| What is aerobes | needs oxygen to survive |
| what is anaerobes | does not need oxygen to survive |
| how does light affect organisums? | most organisums grow better with out light |
| how does moisture affect organisums? | mositure is essential for growth and reproduction |
| Asepsis | germ free |
| Mecical Asepsis | clean but does not eliminate all pthogens |
| surgical asepsis | make steril eliminates all |
| sanitization | process of washing and scrubing |
| disinfection | process that can eliminate many organisms but is not effective against spores |
| sterilization | procdess that distroys all forms of organisums including spores |
| what do you use with disinfection? | chemicals like bleach, clorid, cidex, germacides, bacteriolcides, or boil at least 15min to disinfect |
| Naturally acquired-active immunity | get sick-get the antibodies |
| Artificially acquired-active immunity | vaccine-semi to permanent |
| Naturally acquired-passive immunity | mom to fetus-temporary |
| Artificially acquired-passive immunity | ready made antibodies-gamma globulin-temporary |
| Incubation | exposure time first appearance of disease |
| Prodomal | beginning of systems |
| acute | disease process at it's peak |
| declining | syptoms start to subside |
| convalescent | recovery and recouperation |
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