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| If you see the words "Protein, Secretion, Superantigen, Phospholipase" what word springs to mind? |
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| This organism is a Gram negative, oxidase positive rod. |
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Pseudomonas.
Remember it has exotoxin S |
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| This type of infection acquistion is...aquired during the provision of healthcare. |
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| HCA (healthcare aquired or healthcare associated) |
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| Hosptial-associated infection |
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| If an infection appears after 48 hours after hosptial admission or less than 48 hours after discharge it is called |
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| Community Aquired infection |
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| If an infection is caused by a physcian it is called... |
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| What are the four catagories of nosocomial infection? |
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Urinary
Surgical-site
Pneumonia
Bloodstream |
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| Infants are colonized with lactobacilli during passage through the birth canal. What is the source of the colonization? |
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Exogenous.
Remember, she will put perinatal vertial and horizontal and stuff like that in the answer choices but thsoe are MODES OF TRANSMISSION. |
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This is a popular step question. Know it!
What is the most common cause of UTIs? This includes nosocomial infections. |
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| If you need to protect an immunocompormized patient, would you use negative or positive pressure rooms? |
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Positive pressure rooms.
Remember, in positive pressure the air is pushed out of the room so things can't get in. |
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| Your patient has a private room, you need to wash your hands, wear gloves and a gown whenever dealing with the patient and your patient has dedicated equipment. What is this called? |
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| Standard Precautions PLUS |
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| C. diff, RSV, HSV, enterovirus, parainfluenze, chickenpox, SARS, lice, and scabies are all transmitted how? |
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| Diptheria, meningococcal meningitis, pertussis, H. influenza type B, influenza, M. pneumoniae, measles, mumps, rubella, adenovirus, parvovirus (remember aplastic anemia?), and RSV are all transmitted in what form? |
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| TB, measles, chickenpox, smallpox and SARS are all also transmitted via? |
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Aerosol form.
This is important because you need to take Airborne precautions in addtion to Standard Precautions PLUS which includes a N95 Respirator. |
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| What type of room do you put an active TB patient in? |
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| List major strategies to reduce Hospital Aquired Infections. |
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Immunization
Prophylaxis
Minimize length of stay
Surveillance
Deal with Outbreaks
ID: Antibiograms, Typing, PFGE
Recall in Pulse Field Gels, you digest the bug, load the gel and read the pattern..
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| This form of decontaminiation is used for fomites and has for major types including heat, irradiation, filtration, and chemial. |
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| What are the temperatures, pressures and times for Steam and Dry heat sterilization? |
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Steam: 121C at 15 psi for 15 min
Dry: 170c for 60 min |
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| What is the most common chemizal sterilizer? |
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Ethylene oxide (EO or EtO)
Recall that this is very toxic. Obviously... |
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| What will disinfetion NOT kill? |
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Spore and some types of bacteria and viruses.
This is usually accomplished with bleach. |
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| This level of disinfection includes alcohols and will kill mycobacteria, viruses and fungi. |
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| What is the compound used in low-level disinfecting solvents? |
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| This type of cleaning agent facilitates the mechanical removal of microbes and does NOT kill microbes. |
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| This bacterial structure plays an important role in reducing the effectivness of some disinfectants. |
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