Ch13 Infection Control Flashcards
Microbe types
Bacteria
Viruses
Fungi
Parasites
Microbe
Living thing that cannot be seen by naked eye
Pathogen
Microbe that causes illness
Communicable infections
Infections that can spread from one person to another
Non specific defense mechanisms
Skin
Mucous membranes
Mucous membranes
Sticky mucus secrete traps and destroy pathogens
General immune response
Blood vessels widen to increase blood flow, which appears as red, hot, swollen, and painful.
A fever may develop, so it can kill pathogens with it’s high temps.
Specific defense mechanisms
Production of antibodies
Ways infections are transmitted
Airborne transmission
Direct transmission
Oral-fecal transmission
Bloodborne transmission
Airborne pathogens
Pathogens transmitted through the air
Direct transmission
One infected person touches an uninfected person personally or through object sharing
Oral-fecal route
A person’s feces is infected and it transfers to another uninfected person if they (the uninfected) consumes those contaminated
Bloodborne pathogens
Pathogens that can be transmitted through blood or body fluids
Chain of infection (six conditions to get a communicable infection)
1-Microbe capable of causing disease 2-A place where pathogen can thrive 3-A way for pathogen to leave 4-A way for pathogen to get to another person 5-A way for pathogen to enter new body 6-A susceptible host
Nosocomial infection
Infections that patients getting treated at health care facility
