MT Bell Ringer Week 13 - Infection control

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This type of microorganism can cause infection and is transmitted through a bite by an insect.

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Rickettsia

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Free from disease-causing microorganisms

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Asepsis

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Antibiotics are the treatment for an infection from which type of microorganism?

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Bacteria

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What is communicable disease?

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Spread of disease or infection from person to person with (in)direct contact

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An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense

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Parasite

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You would implement the following precautions for a patient admitted with C. difficile: Contact Precautions, Standard Precautions, Droplet Precautions, Airborne Precautions

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Contact Precautions

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Patient A transmits disease B to patient C through sneezing and coughing. What mode of transmission is this?

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Droplet Precautions

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Autoclave?

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A device that uses steam under high pressure to sterilize medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.

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Which of the following terms means "beginning outside" the body? endogenous, nosocomial, exogenous, sepsis

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exogenous

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True or False? Surgical asepsis is free of ALL pathogens.

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True