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| asepsis(medical vs. surgical) |
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medical asepsis, procedures used to REDUCE the number of microorganisms and prevent their spread. Examples include handwashing and "no touch" dressing technique. (clean procdure)
surgical asepsis, procedures used to ELIMINATE any microorganisms; sterile technique. An example is sterilization of surgical instruments. (sterile procedures) |
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| an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood. |
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| Living or occurring only in the presence of oxygen, as certain microorganisms. |
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| Occurring in the absence of oxygen or not requiring oxygen to live. Anaerobic bacteria produce energy from food molecules without the presence of oxygen. |
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tissue formed in ulcers and in early wound healing and repair, composed largely of newly growing capillaries and so called from its irregular surface in open wounds; proud flesh.
tissue made up of granulations that temporarily replaces lost tissue in a wound |
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| the material composed of serum, fibrin, and white blood cells that escapes from blood vessels into a superficial lesion or area of inflammation |
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| having the immune system impaired or weakened (as by drugs or illness) |
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| death of a portion of tissue differentially affected by local injury (as loss of blood supply, corrosion, burning, or the local lesion of a disease) |
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to cleanse by debridement
surgical removal of foreign matter and dead tissue from a wound. |
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the parting of the sutured lips of a surgical wound
the bursting open of a surgically closed wound |
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| spilling out of abdominal contents resulting from wound dehiscence |
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| the rubbing or scraping of the surface layer of cells or tissue from an area of the skin or mucous membrane |
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| a mass of usually clotted blood that forms in a tissue, organ, or body space as a result of a broken blood vessel |
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to pierce with or as if with a pointed instrument or object
a hole, wound, or perforation made by puncturing |
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| nosocomial infection / hospital acquired infection (HAI) |
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| an infection that is acquired in the hospital or a long-term care facility. In general nosocomial infections are more serious and dangerous than community-acquired infections because the bacteria in hospitals are more virulent and resistant to typical antibiotics. |
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| an abnormal passage that leads from an abscess or hollow organ or part to the body surface or from one hollow organ or part to another and that may be surgically created to permit passage of fluids or secretions |
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| of, containing, relating to, or associated with blood |
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| containing or consisting of both blood and serous fluid (ex. serosanguineous discharge) |
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| containing, consisting of, or being pus |
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of, relating to, producing, or resembling serum
especially : having a thin watery constitution serous exudate |
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| Hand hygiene relates to the removal of visible soil and the removal or killing of transient microorganisms from the hands and may be accomplished using soap and running water or an alcohol-based hand rub. The single most common transmission of health care-associated infections (HAIs) in a health care setting is via transiently colonized hands of health care workers who acquire it from contact with colonized or infected patients, or after handling contaminated material or equipment |
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