PPE & Modes of Transmission

Question 1

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) mode of transmission

Answer 1

contact

Question 2

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) mode of transmission

Answer 2

contact

Question 3

Influenza mode of transmission

Answer 3

droplet

Question 4

Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) mode of transmission

Answer 4

Vehicles (needle, water, drugs, solutions, blood, food)

Question 5

Measles mode of transmission

Answer 5

airborne

Question 6

Meningitis mode of transmission

Answer 6

droplet

Question 7

Tuberculosis
(TB) mode of transmission

Answer 7

airborne

Question 8

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) PPE

Answer 8

gloves
gown
private room
wash hand

Question 9

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) PPE

Answer 9

gloves
gown
private room

Question 10

influenza PPE

Answer 10

mask
private room

Question 11

Measles PPE

Answer 11

mask
N95
private room
negative airflow

Question 12

meningitis PPE

Answer 12

mask
private room

Question 13

TB PPE

Answer 13

mask
N95
private room
negative airflow

Question 14

Airborne precautions PPE

Answer 14

private room
negative airflow
mask
N95

Question 15

droplet precautions PPE

Answer 15

private room (cohort patients)
mask or respirator

Question 16

contact precautions PPE

Answer 16

private room (cohort patients)
gloves
gowns

Question 17

protective environment PPE

Answer 17

private room
positive airflow
HEPA filtration for incoming air
mask
gloves
gown

Question 18

direct contact

Answer 18

person to person (fecal or oral) physical contact between source and susceptible host

Question 19

indirect contact

Answer 19

personal contact of susceptible host with contaminated inanimate object (needles or sharp objects, soiled linen, dressings, environment)

Question 20

droplet

Answer 20

an infected person coughs or sneezes, creating droplets that carry germs short distances (within approx. 6 feet). These germs can land on a susceptible persons eyes, nose or mouth and can cause infection

Question 21

airborne

Answer 21

organisms are carried droplet nuclei or residue or evaporated droplets suspended in air during coughing or sneezing. Germs are aerosolized by medical equipment or by dust from a construction zone

Question 22

vehicles

Answer 22

contaminated items, when blood borne pathogens enter a person through skin puncture by a used needle or sharp instrument (water, drugs, solutions, blood, food)

Question 23

vector

Answer 23

external mechanical transfer (flies)
internal transmission such as parasitic conditions between vector and host (mosquitoes, flea, tick)