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Infection   Condition that results when pathogenic microbes invade your body  
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Communicable   Disease or infection past from person to person  
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CDC   Developes quide lines, safety precautions to protect HCW and others. Center for Disease Constrol&Prevention  
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Non-socomial Infection   You aquire a different infection while you are in the hospital (UTI, MRSA)  
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PPE   Gloves, mask, gown, booties Personal protection equipment  
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Isolation Regular   Transmittable infection  
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Reverse Isolation   Protecting patient from other people because of low immunity  
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Universal precautions   Treat all people like they are infectious  
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OSHA   Mandates safe working conditions  
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EPA   Sets up regulations for HCW  
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MSDS   Form for precautions and emergency situations. Material Safety Data Sheets  
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HICPAC   Advises CDC on updating guidelines. Health infection control practice advisory committee.  
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NIOSH   Nat'l institute of occupational safety & health (example N95 mask respirator for airborne disease  
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Formites   Inatimate objects that can harbor hazardous materials w/infectious agents  
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Biohazards   Wash hands, and material or substance that are hazardous to health  
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Airborne   splashes, arasols, fumes  
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Ingestion   hands to mouth, objects put in mouth  
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Non-intact skin   cuts, abrasions, burns, scratches, chapped, dermatitus  
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Percutaneous   through the skin (non-broken)  
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Permuscosal   eyes, nose, mouth, (mucus membranes)  
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BBP   Infectious microorganisms in your blood, body fluids, tissue  
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HBV   Has 1 week survival, no cure, most contagious, attacks the liver  
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HCV   Most wide spread virus, spread through needles, sex  
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HIV   Attacks immune system, contact through saliva, tears, semen  
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Infectious & Causative agents   Pathogenic microbes responsible for causing infection (bacteria, fungus, protazoon, rickettsia, virus)  
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Reservior   Source of infection agent (animal, human, equipment, food, soil, water  
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Exit Pathway   The way an infectious agent is able to leave that reservoir  
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Means of transmission   Method of infectious agents uses to travel to a susceptible host. airborne-droplet evaporated Contact-direct, indirect Droplet-coughing, sneezing, talking Vector-animal, insect Vehicle-food, water, drugs  
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Entry pathway   The way infectious agent is able to enter host  
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Susceptable host   Someone with decreased ability to resist infection  
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Bio-hazard Trash   Cotton balls, gauze, prof. towels, tourniquets, gloves  
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Regular Trash   Packing materials, plastic cups  
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Sharps bin trash   Needles, ETS, Butterfly, Syringes, Tubes, hubs, hemo tubes  
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JCAHO-JC   Joint Commission of American Health Care Organization (Now Joint Commission) Largest health care standard setting body in the world  
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CAP   Influences QI in phleb. standards outgrowth of ASCP College of American Pathologist  
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ASCP   Designed for pathology/lab services only American Society for Clinical Pathology  
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CLIA 88   All labs must be regulated with the same standards that is reliable and accurate Clinical Lab Improvement Act of 88  
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CLSI   Global non-profit, standard for all labs, certifications, exams Clinical and Lab standards Institute  
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NCCLS   Standards and guidelines for all areas of the lab. phleb. program approval, cert, exam questions National Committee for Clinical Lab Standards  
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NAACLS   Largest standard setting in the world, improves student outcomes and quality education.National accrediting agency for clinical lab. services.  
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Hemotology Dept   Finds diseases in blood (CBC) red, white blood cells, plasma, platelets (formal element of blood)  
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Coagulation Dept   Study of clotting process of blood. PT PTT before surgery. How long blood clotting process  
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Chemistry Dept   Lab does most lab testing. Toxicology, radioimmunology with computer instruments. Plasma, whole blood, urine, body fluids  
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Serology or immunology Dept   Test for antibody reactions. Tests serum parts of blood (serum is plasma without clotting factor)  
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Urinalysis Dept   Tests the physical, chemical, color, clarity ine. Uses chemical reagent strips, for blood cells, and bacteria like UTI  
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Microbiology Dept   Analyzes body fluids and tissues for microorganisms and culture & sensitivity C&S. Bacterial, Virus, Fungi, Parisites, rickettsia  
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Bloodbank Dept   Prepares blood for transfusions donated, or own blood  
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Pathologist   Head of every lab (14 years school)  
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Medical Tech (MT)   Must be a microboligist for 4 years before you can be a  
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Medical Lab Tech (MLT)   Must have a 2 years accociates degree before you can become a  
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Phlebotomist   Must be in certificed class for 4 month - 1 year. and pass the National Exam  
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Phleb means   vein  
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otomy means   surgical incision  
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palpate   to feel, to locate  
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Methods used to perform venipuncture   ETS Evacuation tube system (most common) Butterfly The difference between ETS is a little tube that slowes vacume down Syringe Hospital uses, labs do not  
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Phlebotomy II   Does arterial puntures (have to be on job 1 year before can perform)  
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Identification   Most important aspect of specimen collection is a requisition, verbal name, wrist band  
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4 main parts to medical terminology   Prefix, Suffix, Root Word, Combining Vowel  
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Prefix   beginning of word, won't always have a prefix presents, absence, location, number, size  
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Suffix   end of word, always have a suffix. Disease,disorder, procedure  
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Root Word   middle or beginning. Tells you tissue, organ, body system, structure, substance, condition  
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Combining Vowel   A,E,I,Y,O comes after root word  
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Ectomy   surgical removal  
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ostomy   create a mouth or opening  
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otomy   surgical incision or cut into  
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graph   instrument you are going to use  
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graphy   process of recording a picture or record  
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gram   result of the graphy  
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scope   instrument that is used in a scopy procedure  
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scopy   visual examination  
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sclerosis   abnormal hardening of arteries and muscle  
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stenosis   abnormal narrowing of aorta  
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Leuko/O & Albin/O   Combining vowel white blood cells  
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Erythro/O   Combining vowel red blood cells  
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Poli/O   Combining vowel diabeties (grey)  
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Cyan/O   Combining vowel cardiac, blood vessels, circulatory  
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Xanth/O & Lute/O   Combining vowel liver (yellow)  
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Melan/O   Combining vowel cancer(darkbrown, black)  
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RRoea/RRhea   Disorder. flow or discharge, diarea/gonorea  
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RRagia/RRhage   Disorder. bursting forth, hemorrage  
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RRhexis   Disorder. to rupture , vericose viens  
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RRhaphy   Procedure. to sew or suture  
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Arteri Root Word   Artery. arterialsclerosis  
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Arthr Root Word   Joint. arthitis  
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Bronch Root Word   Bronchi. bronchitis  
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Cardi Root Word   Heart. electrocardiogram  
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Cyt Root Word   Root cyt Cell / Suffix cyte citology  
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Derm Root Word   skin. dermatitis  
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Gastr Root Word   stomach.  
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Gluc Root word   Sugar. Glucose  
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Hema/Hemat/Hemo Root Word   blood.  
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Leuk Root Word   white. leukisite, leukemia  
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Lip Root word   fat. lipids  
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Neir Root Word   death of cells, narcosis,what a brown reclus spider does to cells  
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Onc Root Word   tumer, oncology  
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Oste Root Word   bone. osteoporosis  
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Phlep Root Word   vein. phlebotomy  
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Ren Root Word   kidney. renal  
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Thrumb Root Word   clot. thrombosis  
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ven Root Word   vein. venapunture  
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Algia Suffix   pain. neuralgia  
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Centesis Suffix   surgical procedure to remove fluid. amniocentesis  
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Cyte suffix   cell  
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emia suffix   blood condition. enemia low RBC  
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ist / ologist suffix   specialist. phlebotomist, oncologist  
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itis suffix   inflamation. flabitis  
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lysis suffix   distruction or breakdown. peralysis  
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ology suffix   study of. histology  
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oma suffix   tumor. sarcoma  
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osis, asis, iaosis suffix   condition of  
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pathy suffix   disease. cardiomyopathy  
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pnea suffix   breathing. apnea  
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plasty suffix   surgical repair. rinoplasty  
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stasis suffix   to stop. hemostasis  
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tomy suffix   cutting/incision. phlebotomy  
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Anti prefix   against  
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bi prefix   2  
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bio prefix   life  
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brady prefix   slow  
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cata prefix   down  
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dys prefix   difficult  
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endo prefix   inside, beneath  
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epi prefix   on, over, above  
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exo prefix   outside  
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extra prefix   outside  
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hetero prefix   different  
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homo prefix   same  
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hyper prefix   to much  
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hypo prefix   low  
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intra prefix   within  
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inter prefix   between  
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iso prefix   equall  
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macro prefix   large  
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mal prefix   poor/bad  
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micro prefix   small  
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mono prefix   1  
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neo prefix   new  
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poly prefix   many/much  
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post prefix   after  
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pre prefix   before  
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peri prefix   around/surrounding  
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quad prefix   4  
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semi prefix   half  
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sub prefix   below/under  
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tachy prefix   rapid/fast  
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tri prefix   3  
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uni prefix   1  
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