Chapter 19.1 Quiz 1

Biohazard waste must be collected in impermeable red polyethylene biohazard labeled bags or containers and sealed

The medical waste tracking act set the standard for governmental regulation of medical waste how ever that law expires in 1991 The state we’re then given responsibility for regulating the disposal of medical waste chapter

Each healthcare facility must hire biomedical was disposal service whose employees are trained to collect and haul away biomedical waste in special containers

Employees should have a blood titer drawn after completion of the injection cyde to determine whether they have created antibodies against the disease

Everything that comes into contact with the patient should be sterile ,including gowns ,drape’s instruments and the gloved hands of the surgical team

Because the hands themselves cannot be sterilized the goal of hand washing is to reduce skin bacteria through the use of mechanical friction, anti microbial soap and warm running water

Sound waves cause the solution to vibrate which loosens the materials attached to the instruments. The process is gentle on instruments and reduces worker exposure to sharp injury

Bleach, alcohol and cidex are examples

Are also known as steam sterilizers and are typically used for health care it kills pathogens and spores is a method which uses moist heat

Interferon

Recurrence

Germicides

Antiseptics

Employers must provide employees with any needed PPE not just their own alternative PPE

Hepatitis B immunization must be provided free of charge within 10 days of the start of employment

Hands can become contaminated even if gloves are worn therefore hands should be sanitized after the gloves have been removed

Parenteral

Herpes

Ultrasonic cleaners

Intact skin is the first protection against infectious microbes therefore HIV could not be transmitted by blood that’s splashed into intact skin

A medical assistant must wear disposable gloves she sanitizing contaminated surfaces

Microbes can collect under artificial nails healthcare workers should not wear artificial nails

An asymptomatic host carries infectious material

A body fluid visibly contaminated with blood vaginal and seminal secretions and wound drainage are items that when contaminated required special handling

Pyemia is the presence of puxsforming microbes in the blood not in urine

Remission is the absence of symptoms of a disease

Viral infections cannot be cured with antibiotics The most effective treatment is palliative

Hand sanitization is effective pathogens CDC recognizes

The increased number of WBCs at the site results in phagocytosis or the engulfing and destruction of microorganisms and damage cells

If the body is too weak or the number of pathogens is too great the infection may spread to the bloodstream

Septicemia or blood poisoning

WBC’s White Blood Cell - Are cells of the immune system that are involve in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders

Hypersensitivity reaction to latex gloves or the powder that lines them may be localized,inundating urticaria dermatitis conjunctivitis and rhinitis or they may be systemic producing asthmatic reactions or anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis

Asymptomatic