Week 3 Flashcards
Who was the first IPAC champion?
Florence Nightingale
What were Robert Koch’s contributions?
-developed the petri dish
-discovered that bacillus anthracis formed spores which lead to his postulate proving causal relationship between microorganism and disease
-observed acquired immunity
Who is the founder of modern bacteriology?
Robert Koch
what were Robert Koch’s firsts?
-isolating the anthrax bacillus
-showing that a specific organism was the cause of a disease
-growing bacteria in colonies on potato slices and eventually gelatenous mold
-discovring myobacterium tuberulus as the cause of disease
-discovering the cause of cholera (vibrio cholerae)
What are Koch’s 4 postualtes?
- the organism must be present in every case of the disease
- the organism must be isolated from the diseased host and growin in pure culture
- the disease must be reproduced when a pure culture is introduced to a non-diseased susceptible host
- the organism must be recoverable from an experimentally infected host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent
Are all 4 of Koch’s postulates required to demonstrate causality?
no
Florence Nightingale established a standard of…
cleanliness and sanitation in hospitals and the military
what did Florence believe in?
pure air, pure water, cleanliness, light, and efficient drainage
Who noted that the sick should be isolated and stressed the need for proper ventilation to disperse miasmas?
Florence Nightingale
What did Florence Nightingale campaign for?
-sanitary reform
-hospital laundry to provide new bedding & clothing for soldiers
-improved hospital diets
-upkeep of the wards
What did Ignaz Semmelweis discover?
HAND HYGIENE!!! :)
he was the father of hand hygiene
What comprimses the just clean your hands program?
-hand care
-proper hand hygiene technique
-the 4 moments of hand hygiene
-hand hygiene audits
what illness did Semmelweis fight?
puerperal fever
who was the founder of epidemiology?
John Snow
True or false. Joh snow was a skeptic of the then dominant miasma theory?
True
True or false. John Snow made contirbutions to anesthesiology?
true
What are Snow’s present day contributions?
case investigation and mapping
Describe Alexander Fleming’s discoveries
He observed bacterial staph disappearing on plates contaminated with mold. He extracted the compound for mold responsible for this destruction. The product was named penicillin
Who created the original optical microscope?
Joseph Lister
Who discovered pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
What vaccines did Pasteur create?
rabies and anthrax
Lister experimented with preventing what?
surgical infections
Who is the father of antiseptic surgery?
Joseph Lister
What were some surgical techniques described by Joseph Lister?
soaking dressings in carbolic acid, hand washing, sterilizing surgical instruments, and cleaning operating rooms with carbolic acid (known as phenol)
