Chapter 2 Flashcards
Reactions to stress that occurs during a stressful situation.
Acute Stress Reactions
The spread of an organism via droplets or dust.
Airborne Transmission
Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include but are not limited to, hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Bloodborne Pathogens
The primary federal agency that conducts and supports public health activities in the United States. It is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
CDC
A disease that can be spread from one person or species to another.
Communicable disease
The use of objects to limit a person’s visibility of you.
Concealment
The presence of infectious organisms on or in objects such as dressings, water, food, needles, wounds, or a patient’s body; also, the presence of foreign bodies such as dirt, gravel, or metal.
Contamination
The tactical use of an impenetrable barrier for protection.
Cover
A process that confronts the responses to critical incidents and defuses them, directing the emergency services personnel toward physical and emotional equilibrium.
Critical Incident Stress Management
Prolonged or excessive stress
Cumulative Stress Reactions
Reactions to stress that occur after a stressful situation
Delayed Stress Reactions
The indiviual in the department who is charges with the responsibility of managing exposures and infection control issues.
Designated Officer
Exposure or transmission of a communicable disease from one person to another by physical contact.
Direct Contact
A situation in which a person has had contact with blood, body fluids, tissues of airborne particles in a manner that suggests disease transmission may occur.
Exposure
The contamination of food or water with an organism that can cause disease.
Foodborne Transmission
The body’s response to stress that begins with an alarm response, followed by a stage of reaction and resistance, an then recovery or, if the stress is prolonged, exhaustion.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Inflammation of the liver, usually caused by a viral inection, that causes fever, loss of appetite, jaundice, fatigue, and altered liver function.
Hepatitis
The organism or individual that is attacked by the infecting agent.
Host
Cause by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which damages the cells in the body’s immune system so that the body is unable to fight infection or certain cancers.
HIV
The body’s ability to protect itself from aquiring a disease.
Immunity
Exposure or transmision of disease from one persona to another by contact with a contaminated object.
Indirect Contact
the abnormal invaion of a host or host tissues by organizsm such as bacteria, viruses, or parasites, with or without signs or symptoms of disease.
Infection
Procedures to reduce transmission of infection among patients and health care personnel.
Infection Control
A medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organisms within the body.
Infectious Disease
The federal regulatory compliance agency that develops, publishes and enforces guidelines concerning safety in the workplace.
OSHA
A microorganism that is capable of causing disease in a susceptible host.
Pathogen
A delayed stress reaction to a prior incident. Often the results of one or more unresolved issues concerning the incident and may relate to an incident that involved physical harm or threat of physical harm.
PTSD
Objective finding that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, or measured.
Sign
Protective measures that have traditionally been developed by the CDC for use in dealing with objects, blood, body fluids, and other potential exposure risks of communicable disease.
Standard Precautions
The way in which an infectious disease is spread: contact, airborne, by vehicle, or by vectors.
Transmission
The use of an animal to spread an organism from one person or place to another.
Vector-borne transmission
