Ch.27 Flashcards
Vulnerable groups include:
infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate, and the poor.
Basic human needs:
adequate oxygen, nutrition, and favorable temperature, and humidity.
Carbon minoxide
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.
Low and high concentrations
Low; nausea, dizziness, headache and fatigue.
High; fatal
Food poisoning
Escherichia coli, salmonella, shigella, or listeria.
Food borne diseases are
bacterial, hepatitis A virus by fecal contamination of food, water, or milk.
Relative humidity
is the amount of water vapor in the air compared with maximum amount of water vapor that the air could contain the same temperature.
Immunization
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.
Active immunity
when the body acquires a small amount of weakened or dead organisms + modified toxins from the organism is injected into the body.
Passive immunity
occurs when antibodies produced by another other persons or animals are introduced into a persons blood stream for protection against a pathogen.
Patient inherent accidents
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.
Procedure- related accidents
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.
Equipment related accidents
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.