Health And Safety+Chapter 3 Flashcards
What’s the sympathetic nervous system?
A network of nerves behind the fight or flight response. Helps your Brian manage body systems in times of stress.
Viruses are single celled microorganisms that don’t depend on other organisms for life?
False. Viruses are not cellular organisms,
Indirect contact?
Happens when person comes into contact with an object that has been contaminated by an infectious agent.
Ex- common cold
If an exposure occurs, first step is to wash hand with soap and water ?
True
There’s no vaccine for polio?
False. There are vaccines for polio
Hep B mag include flu like symptoms
True
Most common pathogens are bacteria and viruses?
True 🦠
Steps in order to don PPE?
1) wash hands
2) out on gown
3) put on mask
4)put in protective eyewear
5) put on disposable gloves 🧤
What’s direct contact and give example
Person touching bodily fluid, is an example.
Tuberculosis and hep B are direct contact, (hep B is sexually transmitted, TB is spread through the air when infected person coughs releasing bacteria droplets that others can inhale.)
Vector borne?
Diseases given to humans by blood feeding arthropods such as fleas, ticks or mosquitoes 🦟
Ex-Lyme disease
Airborne?
Transmission of pathogens through air, often via respiratory droplets 💦
Which infection leads to a significant cough lasting 3 weeks or more ?
Tuberculosis
Which bacteria lives in the human intestines/urinary tract??
Enterococci ( this can cause UTIs, meningitis ect)
Which disease causes dark urine and clay colored stool.?
Hep C
What causes an infected person to have significant drop in a certain type of white blood cells and show signs of cancer??
HIV/aids
What condition is caused by fungi?
Ringworm 🪱
Engineering controls isolate or remove a hazard from the workplace?
True
Disposable waste or soiled laundry should be stored in bins labelled biohazard?
True ☣️☣️
Spill management including flooding an area w disinfectant solution and allowing it to stand for at least 20mins?
True
Seasonal influenza has a long onset time.
False!
Varicella and precautions?
Chicken pox. Airborne precautions.
Croup and it’s precautions
Droplet precautions.
Whooping cough
Droplet precautions 💦
Pneumonia and precautions
Contact and droplet precautions
Influenza precautions
Contact and droplet precautions 💦
Tuberculosis precautions
Airborne precautions
Mononucleosis
Routine precautions.
