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Infection Control Flashcards

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Microorganism

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-everywhere
-in food we eat;surfaces
20x’s microorganisms than there are cells in your body. 200 trillion in an adult

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Pathogens

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Microorganisms that are harmful & cause infections

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Non-pathogens

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Microorganisms that usually don’t cause infections

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Normal Flora

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Microbes that live & grow in certain locations-beneficial in maintaining certain body process

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Bacteria

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Classified by shape

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Protozoa

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Animals that live in decayed material; contaminated water.

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Fungi

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Fungus like dead matter

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Ricettsiae

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Parasite - lives inside otter living things

(Small ticks carry Lyme disease

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Viruses

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Smallest of all microorganisms

Can’t replicate unless inside another cell

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What are the 3 types of infections?

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Local
Systemic
Nosocomial

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What is a local infection?

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Just in one area;doesn’t spread

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What is a systemic infection?

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An infection that spreads

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What is a Nosocomial infection?

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Hospital acquired infection

Acquired by an individual in a health care facility

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What is a chain of infection?

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6 conditions that must be present to start an infection.

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What is an susceptible host?

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Individual affected by the disease

1st in chain of infection

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What is the Portal of Entry?

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How pathogen gets into the body

2cd chain of infection

17
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What is a Causative Agent?

pathogen

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Bacteria
Virus
Protozoa
Rickketsiae

(3rd chain of infection)

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What is a Resivar?

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Where the disease lives

19
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What is the Portal of Exit?

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How it leaves the body

Anytime of body fluid is considered contagious

20
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What is Transmission?

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How it gets from one to another.

21
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What does NICE DR MISER stand for?

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Nervous 
Immune (Lymphatic)
Circulatory(cardiovascular)
Endocrine 
Digestive 
Respiratory 
Muscular
Integumentary 
Skeletal 
Excretory
Reproductive
22
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Nervous system

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Function: responds to changes and controls
Structures: Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerves

23
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Infectious disease

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A pathological condition of a plant or animal caused by invasion of microorganisms that impairs normal body function.

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