Safety in Laboratory

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Formalized to protect the health care associate and the patient

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Standards and procedures

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Developed by a patient 48 hours or more after admission or within 30 days after discharge from hospital or health care facility

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Nosocomial infection

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Occurs before 48 hours after admission. Picked up prior to admission

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Community acquired infection

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Infection restricted to one area of the body

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Local infection

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affects the entire body

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systemic infection

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If the organism that causes infection and disease spreads from person to person

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Communicable infection

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What are the chain of infection

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1. Source
2. Portal of exist
3. Means of transmission
4. Portal of entry
5. Susceptible host

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People, equipment, water

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Source

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Excretion, secretion, droplets

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Portal of exit

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Direct contract, ingestion, formites, air

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Means of transmission

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Mucous membrane, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, broken skin

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Portal of entry

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Immunosuppressed patient, diabetic patient, burn patient

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Susceptible host

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Infection can come from the source’s own flora known as

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autogenous infection

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physical transfer of infective material from the source to susceptible host

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Direct contact

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Transfer of infective material via an object, such as bed linens

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Indirect contact

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travel 1 meter or less from the infected individual

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droplet

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droplets that travel on air currents, such as tuberculosis

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Airborne

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transfer of infective material through contaminated items, such as food

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Vehicle

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Transmission of the infected material through insects

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Vector

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Developed in 1985 by the CDC as a response to the increase blood-borne diseases such as AIDS and Hepatitis B

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Universal precautions

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Assumed that all blood and most body fluids were potentially infectious

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Universal precaution

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Creates a first tier of precautions for all patients regardless of their diagnosis or infectious status

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Standard precaution

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Physical and mechanical devices that are available to the health care associate to reduce or eliminate the potential to transfer infectious diseases

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Engineering controls

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Practices that are incorporated into all healthcare associates’ work habits to prevent the spread of infection

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Work practice protocol

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single most important way to prevent the spread of infection

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Handwashing

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required knowing that a patient needed to be isolated

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Category-specific isolation

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Precautions were established in 1983 to overcome the shortcomings of category specific isolation

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Disease-specific isolation

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The second tier of precautions that is intended for patients diagnosed with or suspected of having a specific transmissible disease

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Transmission-based precaution

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An agency of the federal government that investigates the possibility of unsafe practices in the work environment

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Occupation Safety and Health Administration Standards (OSHA)

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6 major tactics to reduce blood-borne infection

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1. Engineering controls
2. Work practice protocols
3. House keeping
4. Hepa B vaccine
5. Private rooms
6. PPE

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What are the means of transmission

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1. Direct contact
2. Indirect contact
3. Droplet
4. Vehicle
5. Airborne
6. Vector