Infection Control

Question 1

Acquired immunity

Answer 1

Immunity that is developed during a persons life time

Question 2

Acute infection

Answer 2

An infection of short duration that is often severe

Question 3

Anaphylaxis

Answer 3

Extreme hypersensitivity to a substance that can lead to shock and life threatening respiratory collapse

Question 4

Blood borne diseases

Answer 4

Such as HBV, HCV, or HIV infection that is caused by microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria that are carried in blood

Question 5

Blood born pathogens

Answer 5

Disease causing organisms transferred through contact with blood or other body fluids

Question 6

Chain of infection

Answer 6

Condition that all must be present for infection to occur

Question 7

Chronic infection

Answer 7

An infection of long duration

Question 8

Communicable disease

Answer 8

Condition caused by an infection that can be spread from person to person or through contact with body fluids

Question 9

Contaminated waste

Answer 9

Items such as gloves and patient napkins that may contain potentially infectious body fluids of patients

Question 10

Direct contact

Answer 10

Touching or contact with a patients blood or saliva

Question 11

Droplet infection

Answer 11

An infection that occurs through the mucosal surface of the eyes, nose or mouth

Question 12

Hazardous waste

Answer 12

Waste that poses a danger to humans or to the environment

Question 13

Immunity

Answer 13

Ability of the body to resist disease

Question 14

Indirect contact

Answer 14

Touching or contact with a contaminated surface or instrument

Question 15

Infectious disease

Answer 15

Disease that is communicable

Question 16

Infectious waste

Answer 16

Waste that is capable of transmitting an infectious disease

Question 17

Inherited immunity

Answer 17

Immunity that is present at birth

Question 18

Latent infection

Answer 18

Persistent infection with recurrent symptoms

Question 19

Naturally acquired immunity

Answer 19

Immunity that occurs when a person had contracted and is recovering from a disease

Question 20

Occupational exposure

Answer 20

Any reasonable anticipated skin, eye , or mucous membrane contact or percutaneous injury involving blood or any other potentially infectious materials

Question 21

OSHA BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS

Answer 21

(BBP )stands for guidelines designed to protect employees against occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens

Question 22

Standard precautions

Answer 22

Standard of care designed to protect healthcare providers from pathogens that can be spread by blood or any other body fluid via excretion or secretion: expands upon the concept of Universal precautions

Question 23

Universal precautions

Answer 23

Guidelines based on treating all human blood and body fluids as potentially infectious

Question 24

Virulence

Answer 24

Strength of a pathogens ability to cause disease ( pathogenicity)