CCMA Semester Review

When you prevent organisms from entering the body, it's

Select all of the times where you need to use hand hygiene.

• After using the restroom

• Before contact with a patient

• After wearing gloves

• After contact with a patient

Is covering your mouth or nose when you cough or sneeze an example of medical asepsis? Yes or No?

• Yes

• No

In the chain of infection, an infection is in a reservoir host and then needs what to spread to another person or thing?

• infectious agent

• portal of entry

• portal of exit

• chain of command

Once the infectious agent leaves the body through an exit portal, it is spread to another person by what?

• mode of transmission

• infectious agent

Where are portals of entry located on our faces? Select all that apply.

• nose

• mouth

• eyes

• skin

Antibodies are

What are the four cardinal signs of infection? Select all that apply.

• heat

• cold

• pain

• redness

• swelling

True or False: Hand hygiene is a way to stop the spread of infection.

• True

• False

In the infection process, this term describes the term where a person is infected with a virus or bacteria, but no symptoms are present.

• acute period

• prodromal period

• incubation period

• invasion period