ARMED FORCES REPORTABLE MEDICAL EVENTS GUIDELINES-CASE DEFINITIONS, ARMED FORCES REPORTABLE MEDICAL EVENTS GUIDELINES & CASE DEFINITIONS Flashcards
Case Definition
“The specific clinical, laboratory, and other criteria that must be met for a disease or condition to be reportable.”
Reportable Medical Event (RME)
“A medical event or condition mandatory for reporting.”
Three Medical Events that are NOT reported through DRSi…
“HIV infection, Healthcare- associated infections, Prevalent cases.”
Amebiasis (Entamoeba histolytica)
“Illness caused by infection of the large intestine that is characterized by symptoms ranging from mild, chronic diarrhea to severe and sudden onset diarrhea containing mucus, blood, or both.”
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
“Illness that can be characterized by painless mucosal lesions in the oral cavity or oropharynx with pharyngitis, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, edema, fever, and possible septicemia.”
Disease caused by Clostridium botulinum toxin…
Botulism
Botulism
“Can be manifested in a wound and is characterized by diplopia, blurred vision, and bulbar weakness with possible rapidly progressing symmetric paralysis.”
Chikungunya virus
“Causes high fever, severe arthralgia, arthritis, rash, headache, conjunctivitis, nausea, vomiting, and lymphopenia, with bilateral and symmetric joint symptoms.”
“A C. trachomatis positive antigen from any clinical specimen is indicative of…”
Chlamydia trachomatis
“Valley Fever”
Coccidioidomycosis
3 Cases of cold weather injuries
Hypothermia, Freezing peripheral injuries, Non-freezing peripheral injuries.
Illness characterized by diarrhea and anorexia
Cryptosporidiosis
Disease that can be confirmed with a microscopic identification of the specific Plasmodium species from blood.
Malaria
“What disease is a probable result form microscopic identification of gram negative intracellular diplococci in a urethral smear obtained form a male?”
Gonorrhea
“Which illness is confirmed with VHF identification from blood or tissues?”
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF)
