Patient Care Test 2H

Front 1

Deaths linked to healthcare-acquired infections represent the ______________ of mortality among Americans, behind major heart diseases, cancer and lung ailments.

Back 1

4th leading cause

Front 2

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

Back 2

The urinary system is a sterile environment
Any object introduced to it must be sterile --Foley Catheters
Common place for infection

Front 3

MRSA

Back 3

(methicillin-resistant 'Staphylococcus aureus‘) known as staph
Resistant to many conventional antibiotics
Bacteria commonly found on the skin or in noses of healthy people.
Has been cultured from equipment, doorknobs, and bedrails. Even on the hands of hospital personnel.
Symptoms include boils, wounds that will not heal, fever and acute pain. These lead to blood poisoning and the damage of internal organs and bones.
Most commonly acquired in hospitals.

Front 4

VRE

Back 4

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci
Bacteria in intestine and female genital tract
Occurs mostly in hospitals
Can cause UTI’s, wound and blood infections
At Risk
– Antibiotic treatment patients
– Weakened immune systems (ICU, Transplant)
– Post operative patients
– Implanted device patients (Central IV lines)
Spread by contact with blood, urine, & stool

Front 5

SARS

Back 5

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- Coronavirus
- first appeared 2002 in China
- can be spread through both sexual and casual contact
- 8098 people worldwide infected in 2003 outbreak; 774 died.

Front 6

Influenza (flu)

Back 6

Infectious disease of the upper airways and lungs
Influenza and common cold, although both viruses, are very different.
– kills millions of people in pandemic (epidemic) years and hundreds of thousands in nonpandemic years.

Front 7

AIDS

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(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)
 Damaged immune system caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors.

 treatments can slow progression, but there is no cure.

Front 8

Tuberculosis (TB)

Back 8

 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (bacteria)
 most commonly affects the lungs, but can also affect brain, spine, and kidneys
 Most of those infected have latent TB.
– Are not contagious
– Will test positive for the skin test
– Will have a negative chest x-ray

Front 9

Meningitis

Back 9

 Infection of spinal fluid
 Diagnosed with Lumbar Puncture
– “spinal tap” removal of (Cerebral Spinal Fluid) CSF
 Contagious
 (Fever, vomiting, headache, confusion, seizures)

Front 10

Hepatitis

Back 10

 Infection of the liver