Test 3 Communicable Diseases Flashcards
The ability to produce a specific clinical reaction after infection occurs
Pathogenicity
What are the methods of horizontal transmission
- direct/indirect contact
- airborne
- vector borne
- common vehicle- food water milk blood serum plasma
Triage band red means
IMMEADIATELY ATTENTION
AIRWAY CIRCULATION OR BREATHING OBSTRUCTION
The ability to produce a poisonous reaction
Toxicity
The ability to penetrate and spread throughout tissue
Invasiveness
The ability to enter and multiply in a host
Infectivity
The ability to stimulate an immunological response
Antigenicity
Types of immunity (Three)
Active immunity
Passive immunity
Herd immunity
What type of immunity is the administration of an antigen so the host produces an antibody (like a childhood immunization)
ACTIVE IMMUNITY
What type of immunity transfers antibodies from an immune individual to a non immune individual (mom to infant)
PASSIVE IMMUNITY
Immunity of a group or community. Increases resistance in a group and decreases the spread of disease
HERD IMMUNITY
What are the manifestations oh the inhalation of ricin?
Coughing
Chest tightening, dypsnea, nausea, achjng muscles, pulmonary edema, cyanosis,
The ability to produce a severe pathological reaction
Virulence
Vertical transmission
Passing infection from parent to offspring
Horizontal transmission
Person to person spread of infection through
- direct/indirect contact
- airborne
- vector borne
- common vehicle- food water milk blood serum plasma
Occurrence of disease in excess of normal expectations
Epidemic
YELLO TRIAGE BAND MEANS
Secondary attention
Long bone fractures, partial or full thickness burns, major joint dislocation
Presence of disease w/i a geographic area
Endemic
What are the manifestations oh the ingestion of ricin?
GI bleed, vomiting, & bloody diarrhea, renal and hepatic failure, death
What are the manifestations oh the injection of ricin?
Muscle &a lymph death, massive GI bleed, renal & hepatic failure
Ricin
Poison made from waste from processing castor beans
Moves into cells and prevents protein synthesis
Green triage band
Walking wounded but problems are less serious than those of red and yellow . Lacerations sprains fractured bones
