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- 3. precautions: Specific methods or techniques of caring for patients who have highly communicable diseases.
- 7. Free from organisms causing disease.
- 8. precautions: Methods of infection control used for patients infected with epidemiological microorganisms that can be transmitted by direct or indirect contact.
- 11. (a-sep'-sis): The condition of being free from infection or pathogenic microorganisms.
- 12. Containing infection or infectious organisms or pathogens.
- 14. B: A severe form of viral hepatitis transmitted by blood, serum, and other body secretions that affects the liver.
- 17. (kav"-ih-tay'-shun): The cleaning process employed in an ultrasonic unit where bubbles explode to drive cleaning solution onto the article.
- 18. (reverse) isolation: Techniques used to provide care to patients requiring protection from organisms in the environment (often immunocompromised patients).
- 20. C: A viral infection transmitted by blood and blood-containing body fluids that causes liver inflammation and damage.
- 21. disinfection: The use of chemicals to clean items that do not penetrate body tissue; destroys many pathogens but not necessarily all spores and viruses.
- 23. precautions: Recommendations that must be followed to prevent the transmission of pathogenic organisms by way of blood and body fluids for all patients.
- 24. A piece of equipment used to sterilize articles by way of steam under pressure or dry heat.
- 25. (ant"-ih-sep'-sis): The prevention or inhibition of the growth of pathogenic organisms; not generally effective against spores and viruses (safe to use on skin).
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- 1. A process that results in the total destruction of all microorganisms, including spores and viruses.
- 2. An infectious disease that affects many people over a wide geographic area; a worldwide epidemic.
- 4. A process that uses chemical disinfectants to destroy or kill pathogenic organisms on objects.
- 5. Infections that occur when the body's defenses are unusually weak (often seen in patients with severe immune deficiencies).
- 6. precautions: Methods of infection control used for patients infected with pathogens transmitted by large particle droplets expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking, or laughing.
- 9. units: Pieces of equipment that clean instruments using sound waves.
- 10. protective equipment (PPE): Protective barriers such as masks, gowns, gloves, and protective eyewear that help protect a person from contact with infectious material.
- 13. Free of all organisms, including spores and viruses.
- 15. An infection or disease originating from outside the body.
- 16. field: A specific, isolated area that is set up for certain procedures and is strictly free from all organisms.
- 19. An infectious disease that affects a large number of people within a population, community, or region at the same time.
- 22. care-associated infection (HAI): An infection acquired by an individual in a healthcare facility (formerly known as a nosocomial infection).
- 25. precautions: Methods of infection control used for patients known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei.