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23 Cards in this Set
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Standard Precaution |
Treat every patient as potentially infectious to decrease the risk of infections. |
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Goals of Infection Control Programs |
1. Reduce the maunders of pathogenic microorganism to levels where parients normal defense mechanism can prevent infection. 2. Break the cycle of infection and elimate cross contamination 3. Treat every patient and instrument as capable of transmitting infectious disease 4. Protect patient and health care workers from infection and its consequences |
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Sterilization |
A prices intended to kill or remove all of the use microorganism, including spores, and usuallg including viruses with an acceptable low probability of survival |
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Ultimate goal Sterilization |
Of any infection control protocol because it is the killing of all forms of microorganism |
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Disinfection |
process of destroying pathogens or blocking the transfer or pathogens from patient to patient by inanimate surfaces does not necessarily achieve complete sterility |
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Disinfection |
Chemical orphysical treatment that destroy most vegetativd microbes or viruses, but not spores, in or on inanimate surfaces. |
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Disinfection |
Disinfectants kill Pathogenic microorganisms |
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Antisepsis |
Application of an agent to a LIVING TISSUE for the purpose of preventing infection. |
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Disinfection |
DEAD Surface INANIMATE SURFACES |
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Antisepsis |
ALIVE SURFACE ANIMATE SURFACE |
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Hand washing |
The most important means of preventing transmission of infectious agents from person or from regions f high microbial load |
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Alcohol |
Disinfectants&Antiseptic |
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Chlorhexidine |
Antiseptic Strongly absorbs to bacterial membranes. |
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Iodine |
Antiseptic Most active antiseptic for intact skin |
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Iodophors |
Antiseptic and Disinfectant |
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Chlorine |
Disinfectant Strong oxidizing agent |
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Phenols |
Antiseptics Oldest of the surgical antiseptics |
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Quaternary ammonium compounds |
Disinfectant |
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Formaldehyde |
Disinfectant |
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Glutaraldehyde |
Disinfectants |
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Ortho-Phythaldehyde |
Disinfectant |
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Peroxygen Compounds |
Disinfectant High killing activity |
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Heavy metals |
Disinfectant Mercury and Silver |
