ESSEX HEALTH PROTECTION UNIT Part of the INFECTION CONTROL GUIDELINES CARE HOMES Issued January 2004 Revised April 2006 and December 2007 2 ESSEX HEALTH PROTECTION UNIT INFECTION CONTROL GUIDELINES FOR CARE HOMES SECTION B – INFECTION‚ ITS CAUSES AND SPREAD 1. The Causes of Infection An understanding of commonly encountered mi cro-organisms is essential for good infection control practice. Micro-organism s that cause disease are referred to as pathogenic organisms.
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chest pain‚ pre-op teaching‚ hospital admission • a sign or symptom of (possible) importance to the nursing and/or medical diagnosis or treatment plan‚ i.e. fever‚ constipation‚ hypertension‚ incontinence‚ lethargy • an acute change in an individual ’s condition‚ i.e. respiratory distress‚ seizure‚ fever‚ discomfort • a significant event in an individual ’s care‚ i.e. begin treatment regimen (oxygen)‚ change in diet‚ catheterization • a key word or phrase
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foot and trench fever. Trench foot is a disease which makes your foot turn blue or red and makes your foot very numb. It often involves blisters and open sores which allows fungal infections to enter. If the foot is untreated it can result into gangrene. Trench foot is caused by exposure to damp and wet conditions. In this case it was the soldiers walking bare foot in the wet trenches. This was bad for the soldiers because it delayed the time in which they could fight. Trench fever was a serious disease
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with my selecting the courses. So I declined his kindness. The very next day‚ I got a cough and it later turned out to be a four-day high fever. In those days‚ I was extremely weak and lay in bed all day long and hardly had any strength even to eat. I lost the power to keep an eye on the possible vacancies of the English courses ever since I got a high fever. I began to regret declining Aero＇s offer. Just at that moment‚ Aero called‚ asking about my health and told me to have a good rest‚ saying
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FIRST AID Animal Bites Treatment 1. Stop Bleeding * Apply direct pressure until bleeding stops. 2. Clean and Protect For a wound or superficial scratch from an animal bite: * Gently clean with soap and warm water. Rinse for several minutes after cleaning. * Apply antibiotic cream to reduce risk of infection‚ and cover with a sterile bandage. 3. Get Help * Get medical help immediately for any animal bite that is more than a superficial scratch or if the animal was a wild animal
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healthy bathed together. The baths were cleaned out about every two weeks‚ so those viruses were spread throughout the baths‚ multiplying every moment of the day. Many of the diseases spread in Rome were deadly‚ such as malaria‚ tuberculosis‚ typhoid fever‚ and gastroentitis. The most deadly diseases in Rome were affected by temperature‚ which causes seasonal plagues. The Fall of Rome Poor political Leadership Gracelyn Gutierrez Rome‚ originally quite small‚ was then a vast area‚ spreading from
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Symptoms of sepsis are usually nonspecific and include fever‚ chills‚ and constitutional symptoms of fatigue‚ malaise‚ anxiety‚ or confusion.[12] These symptoms are not pathognomonic for infection and may also be observed in a wide variety of noninfectious inflammatory conditions. In addition‚ they may be absent in patients with serious infections‚ especially in elderly individuals. Because systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)‚ sepsis‚ septic shock‚ and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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persons and compared with a random sample of half the available medical records for persons who had tested negative 31 of 67 persons -Among the 28 people who tested positive‚ illness onset occurred during August 26-October 6. -Symptoms included fever‚ headache‚ myalgia‚ and pharyngitis. -Three persons attended one school‚ six persons were employees of the hospital; no other common exposures were reported. Defensive measures against Mononucleosis -Wash hands frequently -Avoid close contact
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for much ill health as well as many deaths. Symptoms If you start to develop cold symptoms but starting more rapidly and rather more violently‚ with higher fever and severe aches and pains‚ often in the back and muscles‚ then you may well be developing influenza. This may be associated with severe headache‚ cough‚ and‚ as a result of the fever‚ intermittent sweating and shivering. Sometimes there is a gastrointestinal element‚ with vomiting and/or diarrhoea. Many people think they have had "flu" when
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