Medical Asepsis & Infection Control Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest
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Infection - An invasion of body tissue by microorganisms and their subsequent proliferation there, with
damage to host tissue.
Infectious Agent - A microorganism that causes infections.
Asepsis - Freedom from disease-causing microorganisms.
Medical Asepsis - Techniques used to control and to reduce the spread of pathogenic microorganisms. A
medical aseptic technique is hand washing.
Surgical Asepsis - Techniques used to destroy all pathogenic organisms before they can enter the body.
One surgical aseptic technique is sterilization of surgical equipment.
Nosocomial Infections - Infections that are associated with the delivery of health-care services in a
health-care facility.
Health-Care-Associated Infections - Infections that are contracted by either patients or personnel in
places where health-care services are delivered.
Bacteremia - Bacteria in the bloodstream.
Types of Organisms causing infections? (5) - 1.Bacteria
2.Viruses
3.Fungi
4.Protozoa
5.Helminths
, Bacteria - The most common infection-causing microorganisms, large enough to be seen with light
microscope, can replicate outside of host cells, fairly easily grown in laboratory.
Viruses - Must enter in living cells in order to reproduce, can only be seen by an electron microscope,
cannot be grown in most hospital laboratories.
Fungi - Include yeasts and moulds.
Protozoa - Single-celled organisms. (Parasite)
Helminths - Multicelled organisms. (Parasite)
Communicability - The ability for microorganisms to spread from one person to another.
Pathogen - Causes disease or infection in a healthy individual.
Opportunistic Pathogen - Causes disease only in a susceptible individual.
Virulence - The power a pathogen has to overcome the host's defenses.
Inflammation - A local and nonspecific defensive response of the tissues to injury or infection.
Signs that characterize inflammation? (5) - 1.Pain
2.Swelling
3.Redness
4.Heat
5.Impaired function of the body part, if the injury is severe
Antigens - Foreign proteins in the body.
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