Infection Prevention & Control Week - Puzzle 4

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Across
  1. 4. precautions to be used for any patient, regardless of their infectious status
  2. 6. Microorganisms that colonise the body but do not produce disease under normal conditions
  3. 9. condition where bacteria are in the blood
  4. 12. host response to tissue damage that includes redness, swelling, pain, heat and sometimes loss of function
  5. 14. items worn by staff to protect from the spread of infection
  6. 15. accumulation of dead phagocytes, bacterial cells and fluid
  7. 17. infection acquired as the result of a hospital stay
  8. 18. abnormally high body temperature produced in response to bacterial or viral infection
  9. 20. the sustained presence of microorganisms on or in the body with the production of an immune response or disease
  10. 22. a host whose resistance to infection is impaired by disease, therapy or burns
  11. 23. caused by the inappropriate use, and oversuse, of antimicrobials
  12. 24. how pathogens gain access to the body
Down
  1. 1. Objective changes that can be observed and measured by a physician
  2. 2. ability of a pathogen to produce a disease by overcoming host defenses
  3. 3. coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms
  4. 5. system used at RPA for prescribing antimicrobials
  5. 7. a painful collection of pus, usually cause by bacterial infection
  6. 8. the causative organism of bacterial diarrhoea that can occur secondary to antibiotic administration
  7. 10. used when standard precautions alone are insufficient to interrupt the transmission of a microorganism
  8. 11. invasion or colonisation of the body by pathogens, resulting in signs and symptoms
  9. 13. A disease that can be spread (directly or indirectly) from one host to another
  10. 16. precautions required in the care of confirmed or suspected tuberculosis
  11. 19. transmission of infection by discharged respiratory particles
  12. 21. colour classification of antibiotics requiring ID/Micro approval