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Chapter 13 NA Flashcards

1
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What Immune Responses fight off infection?

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  • blood vessels bring blood to the infection site
  • White blood cells eat pathogens
  • Fever, which causes the environment for the pathogens to be too hot, and die
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What are Mucous Membranes?

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They secrete and destroy pathogens- lines all organ systems that open to the outside of the body

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What do Nonspecific Defense Mechanisms do?

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They help to protect us from all infections

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What is the first line of defense against infection?

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Healthy skin

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What is Antibodies?

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specialized proteins produced by the immune system that help our bodies to fight off specific pathogens, preventing infection

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What is a pathogen?

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a microbe that can cause illnesses

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Where do pathogens prefer to live?

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In an environment that is warm, moist, dark, and with proper amounts of oxygen

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Types of Microbes?

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  • Bacteria
  • Viruses
  • Fungi
  • Parasites insects
  • Helminth worms
  • Protozoa
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What is a microbe?

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a living thing that cannot be seen with the naked eye

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What is Specific Defense Mechanisms?

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they help to protect us from certain infections

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Why does our bodies produce antibodies?

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following exposure to certain pathogens; the exposure may come from a previous infections with the pathogen or through a vaccination

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What does antibiotics do?

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it treats bacterial infections

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What does antimicrobial do?

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used to treat fungal and parasitic infections

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What does antiviral agents do?

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Used to treat viral infections

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What is airborne pathogens?

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pathogens that can be transmitted through the air

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Examples of airborne pathogens?

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-Tuberculosis
-Measles
- Chickenpox

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What is oral-fecal route?

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a method of transmitting an infection; occurs when feces containing a pathogen contaminate food or water, which is then consumed by another person

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Examples of oral-fecal route?

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-Hepatitis A
-Hepatitis E
-Vancomycin resistant enterococcus
- some types of parasitic infections

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what is a bloodborne pathogen?

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can be transmitted to another person through blood or other body fluids

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examples of a bloodborne pathogens?

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  • Hepatitis B
    -Hepatitis C
    -Malaria
    -Syphilis
  • Ebola
  • HIV/AIDS
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Body fluids that could contain a bloodborne pathogen?

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  • Needlesticks
  • blood
    -semen
  • vaginal secretions
    -wound drainage
  • cerebrospinal fluid
    -amniotic fluid
  • breast milk
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What is the first step of the chain of infection?

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Pathogen

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What is the second step of the chain of infection?

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Reservoir

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What is the third step of the chain of infection?

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Portal of Exit

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What is the fourth step of the chain of infection?

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Method of Transmission

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What is the fifth step of the chain of infection

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Portal of Entry

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What is the sixth step of the chain of infection?

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A susceptible host

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What is Reservoir?

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A place where the pathogen can live and grow

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Where can a reservoir be found?

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in the human body, food and water, and contaminated objects

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What is a portal of exit?

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A way for the pathogen to leave the reservoir

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Where can the portal of exit be found?

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through the digestive tract, respiratory tract, urinary or reproductive tract, or through the skin in blood or pus

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What is the method of transmission?

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A way for the pathogen to get from one person to another

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Examples of Method of Transmission

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  • touching an infected person
  • breathing infected air
  • eating or drinking contaminated food or fluids
  • touching contaminated objects
    -vectors such as mosquitos, rodents, and ticks
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What is a Portal of Entry?

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A way for the pathogen to enter the new person’s body

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Examples of a portal of entry

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Through the digestive tract, respiratory tract, urinary or reproductive tract, or through breaks in the skin

36
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Who is a good susceptible host?

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  • A very young or old person
  • A person in poor general health
  • A person who is stressed and tired
  • A person with an indwelling medical device
37
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How do you break the chain of infection?

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removing one of the six key elements

38
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What is healthcare associated infection (HAI)

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infections that the patients or residents get while receiving treatment in a hospital or other health care facility or that health care workers get while performing their duties within a health care setting

39
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What is healthcare associated infection (HAI)

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infections that the patients or residents get while receiving treatment in a hospital or other health care facility or that health care workers get while performing their duties within a health care setting

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What is a Nosocomial Infections?

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Infections that patients or residents get while receiving treatments in a hospital or other healthcare facility

41
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What is Medical Asepsis?

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techniques that are used to physically remove or kill pathogens

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What techniques are used in medical asepsis

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  • sanitization
  • antisepsis
  • disinfection
    -sterilization
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What is Surgical Asepsis?

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used for procedures that involve entering a person’s body, such as surgical procedures, injections, insertion of catheters, and insertion of urinary catheters

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What is PPE?

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barriers that are worn to physically prevent microbes from reaching a health care providers skin or mucous membranes

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examples of PPE?

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  • Gloves
    -Gowns
    -Masks
    -Goggles
46
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What is the order of putting on PPE?

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-Gown
-Mask
-Eyewear
-Gloves

47
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What is the order for removing PPE?

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  • Gloves
    -Eyewear
    -Mask
    -Gowns
48
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What is transient flora?

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microbes that picked up by touching contaminated objects or people who have infectious diseases

49
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What is tuberculosis?

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an airborne infection caused by bacterium that usually infects the lungs

50
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What is isolation precautions?

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guidelines that we follow to contain pathogens and limits others exposure to them as much as possible

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What is transmission based precautions?

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used when a person is known or thought to have an infection that is transmitted in a certain way

52
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Airborne precautions

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Used when caring for people infected with airborne pathogens

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Droplet precautions

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used when caring for people with diseases caused by pathogens that are transmitted by direct exposure to droplets released from the mouth or nose

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Contact precautions

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used when caring for people with diseases caused by pathogens that are transmitted directly or indirectly

55
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Standard Precautions

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safeguards that a health care worker takes with each patients or resident to prevent contract with bloodborne pathogens; include the use of barrier methods as well as certain environmental controls

56
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What is the most important method of precenting the spread of infection

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Proper hand hygiene

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