Ch 14 Preventing Infection
Terms
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- Antibiotic
- A drug that kills microbes that cause infection
- Asepsis
- Being free of disease- producing microbes
- Biohazardouse Waste
- Items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions, or excretions
- Carrier
- A human or animal that is a resevoir for microbes but does not have the sign and symptoms of infection
- Clean Technique
- Medical asepsis
- Communicable Disease
- A disease caused by pathogens that spread easily; a contagious disease
- Contagious Disease
- Communicable disease
- Contamination
- The process of becoming unclean
- Disinfection
- The process of destroying pathogens
- Germicide
- A disinfectant applied to the skin, tissue, or non-living objects
- Healthcare-associated infection (HAI)
- An infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given; the infection is related to receiving health care
- Immunity
- Protected against a certain disease
- Infection
- A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body
- infection control
- Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection
- Medical Asepsis
- Practices using to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from 1 person or place to another person or place; Clean Technique
- Microbe
- A microorganism
- Microorganism
- A small(micro) living plant or animal (organism) seen only with a microscope; a microbe
- Non-Pathogen
- A microbe that does not usually cause an infection
- Normal Flora
- Microbe that live and grow in certain area
- Pathogen
- A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection
- Reservoir
- The enviroment in which a microbe lives and grows; host
- Spore
- A bactterium protected by a hard shell
- Sterile
- The absence of ALL microbes
- Sterile field
- A work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (including spores)
- Sterile Technique
- surgical asepsis
- Sterilization
- The process of destroyng all Microbes
- Surgical asepsis
- The practices that keep items free of all microbes; sterile technique
- vaccination
- Giving a vaccine to produce immunity aganst an infectious disease
- Vaccine
- a preparation containing deaf or weakened microbes