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20 Cards in this Set
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Fight or flight response |
Psychological response to a profound stressor that helps a person deal with the situation at hand |
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Infectious disease |
Medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small half organisms within the body. Capable of being transmitted with or without direct contact |
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Communicable disease |
Disease that can be spread from one person or species to another |
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Transmission |
The way an infectious agent is spread. This can be through contact, airborne, foodborne or vector borne. |
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Direct contact |
Occurs when an organism is moved from one person to another through touching without any intermediary. |
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Blood-borne pathogen’s |
Micro organisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans is blood containing the pathogen enters the bloodstream. For example sexual transmission |
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Indirect contact |
Involves the spreading of infection between the patient with an infection to another person through a contaminated inanimate object. For example, a needle stick. |
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Airborne transmission |
Involves spreading an infectious agent for mechanisms such as droplets or dust. For example a common cold is moved from person to person by coughing and sneezing |
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Stress |
Reaction of the body to any agent or situation that requires a person to adapt. Two kinds of stress: eustress (positive stress) and distress (negative stress) |
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Stressor |
Any agent or situation that causes stress whether good or bad |
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Acute stress reaction |
Occur during stressful situations. |
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Delayed stress reactions |
Manifest after the stressful event. |
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Cumulative stress reactions |
Can a car when you are exposed to prolonged or excessive stress. Can result in physical symptoms or job burnout |
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Defense mechanisms |
Psychological ways to relieve stress usually automatic or subconscious. They include denial regression projection and displacement |
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Blind panic |
Fear reaction in which a persons judgement disappears entirely - may cause mass panic among others |
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Conversion hysteria |
Reaction in which a person subconsciously transforms his or her anxiety into a bodily dysfunction; may be unable to see or hear or become partially paralyzed |
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Burnout |
Exhaustion of physical or emotional strength. |
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Post traumatic stress disorder |
Delayed stress reaction |
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Critical incident |
Event that overwhelms the ability to cope with the experience, either at the scene or later |
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Critical incident stress management |
Resource available for emergency personnel who have been involved in particularly traumatic calls or incidents. Decrease the likelihood that PTSD will develop after such an incident. |
