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1
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Transmission types

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Contact: direct, indirect, droplet. Airborne, vehicle, vector. Vehicle is like indirect, but could be like a contaminated solution or medication.

2
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4 moments of hand hygiene

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Before contact with patient or patient environment, before aseptic procedure, after body fluid exposure risk, after patient/patient environment contact.

3
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What to do to prevent exposure to influenza and other droplet transmitted pathogens?

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Gloves, gown, eye protection/faceshield, clean your hands

4
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What to do to prevent exposure to bloody diarrhea and other contact transmitted pathogens?

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Gown and gloves and clean hands, and environmental decontamination! (surfaces and equipment)

5
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What to do to prevent exposure to TB and other airborne transmitted pathogens?

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Just a N95 mask! The patient wears just a normal mask and is in a negative pressure room.

6
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How do you doff (remove) your equipment after seeing a patient with influenza and methicillin resistant S aureus?

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Gloves into garbage, clean hands, gown, clean hands, mask, clean hands (outside in). And wash your steth (with hand sani or alcohol wipes)!

7
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Clean phone and pagers!

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Yes!

8
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How could you pick up C difficile diarrhea?

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Spores, so alcohol doesn’t work.

9
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Alcohol drawbacks

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Only works where it touches, flammable, no lasting effect, doesn’t work on certain pathogens.

10
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What is asepsis?

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Practice to reduce or eliminate contaminants from entering the operative field in surgery or medicine to prevent infection

11
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Why difficult to do asepsis?

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Can’t see contaminants. We are biological organisms. We are forgetful and make mistakes. We don’t create all cases equally.

12
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Sources of infections

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Environment, instruments, patient, surgical team, type of operation, surgical technique

13
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Environment

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Dedicated, regulated airflow and temp, cleaned often, limited traffic

14
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Instruments

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Autoclaved, radiated, special packaging, stored sterilely

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Patient

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Wears gowns, shave prep in OR, cleaning solution on area, pre-op antibiotics, superbugs…?

16
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Surgical team

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Equipment (leave scrubs in the hospital!), antiseptic scrub, what what you touch, includes everyone in the OR.