Ch.27 Flashcards

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Vulnerable groups include:

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infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate, and the poor.

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Basic human needs:

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adequate oxygen, nutrition, and favorable temperature, and humidity.

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Carbon minoxide

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colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. > this gas binds strongly with hemoglobin; preventing the formation of oxyhemoglobin and thus reducing the supply of oxygen delivered to the tissues.

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Low and high concentrations

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Low; nausea, dizziness, headache and fatigue.

High; fatal

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Food poisoning

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Escherichia coli, salmonella, shigella, or listeria.

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Food borne diseases are

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bacterial, hepatitis A virus by fecal contamination of food, water, or milk.

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Relative humidity

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is the amount of water vapor in the air compared with maximum amount of water vapor that the air could contain the same temperature.

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Immunization

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the process by which resistance to an infectious disease is produced or increased, often reduces or prevents the transmission of disease from person to person.

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Active immunity

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when the body acquires a small amount of weakened or dead organisms + modified toxins from the organism is injected into the body.

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Passive immunity

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occurs when antibodies produced by another other persons or animals are introduced into a persons blood stream for protection against a pathogen.

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Patient inherent accidents

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accidents other than falls in which the patient is the primary factor causing the accident. Ex; self-inflicted cuts, injuries, and burns, infection or injection of foreign substances; self mutilation or setting fires. seizures.

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Procedure- related accidents

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accidents caused by health care providers and include medication and fluid administration errors, improper application of external devices, and improper performance of procedures such as dressing changes.

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Equipment related accidents

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accidents result from the malfunction, disrepair, or misuse of equipment or from an electrical hazard. Ex: too-rapid infusion of intravenous (IV) fluids. TJC requires that hospitals use programmable infusion pumps when heparin, an anticoagulant medication.

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