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Small animal disease NOTES
Term | Definition |
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OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet |
SDS | Safety Data Sheet |
Ethylene Oxide | Carcinogenic chemical used to sterilize equipment. |
Formalin | Carcinogenic chemical used for tissue prevention, diagnostic tests and even sterilization. |
Glutaraldehyde | Chemical used to sterilize hard instruments without an autoclave. |
Zoonotic disease | Disease passed from animal to human. |
Hospital Safety Manual | A collection of written safety related policies. |
"Right to know" Law | Law that requires you be informed of all the chemicals you may be exposed to while doing your job. |
Hazardous materials Plan | Plan that includes instructions for organizing and maintain the practices right to know documents. |
Rabies | Almost always fatal, this is a virus that is spread by contact with an infected animals saliva. |
Lyme disease | When an infected deer tick bites a host and Borrelia Burgdorferi is transferred. Bacterial Infection. |
Ringworm | An infection of the skin caused by a fungus known as Microsporum. Fungal infection. |
Visceral Larval Migrans | Roundworm larvae can migrate to virtually any organ in the body and develop a cyst-like growth. Internal parasite. |
Cutaneous Larval Migrans | Caused by hookworms. Internal Parasite. |
Toxoplasmosis | Causes effects on the development of a human fetus by causing hydrocephalus and mental retardation. |
Giardia | Zoonotic protozoal agent. Causes diarrhea and gastrointestinal cramping in humans. |
Coccidia | Zoonotic protozoal agent. Causes diarrhea and gastrointestinal cramping in humans. |
Sarcoptic Mange | Irritating an itchy mite. form of mange caused by the itch mite and tending to affect chiefly the abdomen and hindquarters. |
Parvoviral enteritis | Parvo is an infectious DNA virus that commonly causes severe illness in young and unvaccinated dogs. |
Panleukopenia | an acute usually fatal epizootic disease especially of cats that is caused by a parvovirus (species Feline panleukopenia virus of the genus Parvovirus) |
Waste Anesthetic Gases (WAGs) | Small amounts of anesthetic gases that leak from the patient's anesthetic breathing circuit* into the air of operating rooms during delivery of anesthesia. |
Sharps | Any device with characteristics that make it possible to puncture, lacerate or penetrate skin. |