Immunization Flashcards
Documentation of Vaccine Administration
• Date of administration
• Vaccine manufacturer
• Vaccine lot number
• Name and title of the person who administered the vaccine and address of the facility where the permanent record will reside
• Vaccine information statement (VIS)
◦Date printed on the VIS
◦Date the VIS was given to the patient or parent/guardian
Rotavirus 💩
- watery diarrhea 5-7 days
- vomiting & fever
- infants 6-12 months
- fecal-oral OR indirect contact
- no treatment, recover on own
- Diagnosis with stool specimen
- winter months ❄️
- Treatment with oral rehydration or IV fluids
Rotavirus (RV) Vaccine
• orally
•Do not re-administer dose if regurgitates, spits out or vomits during administration
- Continue with recommended schedule
•Administer even if had previously
•can be infected more than once
•can be administered to infant living with pregnant woman or person with impaired immune status
- All household members should employ good hand hygiene after diaper changes
Diphtheria 🫁👅👃🏼
- bacteria make a toxin that kills healthy tissues in the respiratory system
- air or direct contact.
- forms a thick, gray coating that can build up in the throat or nose making it very hard to breathe and swallow
Diphtheria signs and complications
Disease Symptoms: ●Sore throat ●Mild fever ●Weakness ●Swollen glands in neck “bull neck”
Disease Complications: ●Swelling of the heart muscle ●Heart failure ●Coma ●Paralysis ●Death
Tetanus
🪴🐶🐱💩
- bacteria found in soil, dust, animal feces.
- Exposure through cuts in skin.
- No cure after symptom appear
Symptoms: ●Stiffness in neck and abdominal muscles ●Difficulty swallowing ●Muscle spasms ●Fever
Complications:
●Broken bones
●Breathing difficulty
●Death
Pertussis “whooping cough” 😷
- bacteria
- air or direct contact
- most adults to small kids
Symptoms (at least 2 weeks):
●Severe cough with paroxysms, inspiratory “whoop”, and posttussive emesis
●Runny nose
●APNEA in infants
Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib)
- bacterium
- does not cause influenza
- air or direct contact
- can cause serious infections such as meningitis, pneumonia, epiglottis, cellulitis, and sepsis
Pneumococcal Disease 🧠🩸🫁
Who is at risk ?
- bacteria
- air or direct contact.
- pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis
Children at risk:
- under 2 years
- children in group child care
- children who have certain illnesses (sickle cell disease, HIV, chronic heart and lung conditions
Polio
-air or direct contact
- most no symptoms
- non-specific symptoms (sore throat, fever, nausea, headache)
- few develop nonparalytic viral meningitis
- Very rarely “flaccid paralysis” where the patient is left with permanent weakness of paralysis of legs, arms, or both.
- some children with paralytic polio die.
Influenza Vaccine
Recommended 6 months and older
●One Dose Annually
●Two Doses (Recommended 4 wk apart)
- < 9 years of age who are receiving the vaccine for the first time
Measles 😷
- virus
- air or direct contact, and is highly contagious!!!! 😷
RASH, fever, runny nose, COUGH, PINK EYE, KOPLIK SPOTS (white spot in 👄)
Exposure to measles during pregnancy increases risk of premature labor, miscarriage, and low-birth weight
Mumps
- Virus
- air or direct contact
SWOLLEN SALIVARY GLANDS (parotitis), fever, headache, tiredness, and MUSCLE PAIN
Complication: INFLAMMATION IF TESTICLES OR OVARIES, deafness
Rubella (German measles)
- Virus
- air or direct contact.
RASH, fever, SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES
“Congenital Rubella Syndrome” Exposure during pregnancy first trimester – can lead to premature delivery or death. ●Cataracts ●Heart and eye defects ●Deafness ●Liver and spleen damage
Varicella “Chickenpox”
How long does it last ? 😷
- Highly contagious virus 😷
- air or direct contact
Pruritic rash, tiredness, headache, and fever for approximately ONE WEEK!!
Complications: Skin infections, dehydration, bleeding disorders
