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| the absence of disease-producing organisms |
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| the methods used during patient care to prevent microbial contamination. they can either be clean (medical asepsis) techniques or sterile (surgical asepsis) technique |
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| the presence of bacteria on the surface or in the tissue of a wound without indications of infection such as purulent, exudate, foul odor, or surrounding inflammation |
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| the introduction of infectious material on normaly clean or sterile sites |
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| a state of defective or failed immune response that makes a person more likely to acquire an infection |
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| the invasion and reproduction of microorganisms in a body tissue that can result in a local or systemic clinical response such as cellulitis or fever |
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| a procedure in which the normal protective barrier of the skin or mucous membrane is broken or compromised |
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| infection control and prevention mehtods such as barrier techniques that are used to decrease the transmission of mircoorganisms |
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| the techniques used to reduce and prevent the spread of microorganisms |
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| any microscopic entity capable of sustaining living processes, such as bacteria, virus, fungi, only some of which typically cause human disease |
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| health care-acquired infection |
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| infection that was not present or incubating at the time of admission |
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| microorganism capable of producing disease |
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| techniques used to reduce the ricks for the transmission of blood-borne pathogens or microorganisms present in moist body substances regardless of a patient's diagnosis or infection status |
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| practices or techniques designed to render and maintain objects and areas free from pathogenic microoorganisms. also referred to as sterile technique |
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| transmission-based precautions |
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| techniques used to prevent the transmission of microorganisms from patients documented or suspected to be infected with highly transmissible pathogens for which addditional precautions are needed beyond standard precautions. the three types are airborne, droplet, and contact precautions |
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