EMT Infectious diseases
Infectious Disease - Answer an illness resulting in exposure to a microbial pathogen
Antibodies - Answer proteins made by the immune system that have a memory for an
invading virus and help to recognize and destroy future invasions by that virus
Antibiotic - Answer medicine or drug that is effective in killing bacteria or inhibiting
bacterial growth
Bacteria - Answer single-celled microscopic organism that can cause damage to the
body's cells; multiply quickly by dividing
BSI - Answer Body Substance Isolation
Infectious contral practice that assumes all body substances including blood, urine,
saliva, feces, tears, etc., are potentially infectious
Epidemic - Answer Outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads among many in an
area or population at the same time
MRSA - Answer Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Type of staph bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics
Pandemic - Answer Outbreak of a contagious dz that affects an entire population over a
wide geographical area?
What is larger in scope, pandemic or epidemic? - Answer Pandemic affects a far higher
number of people and much larger region
Parasite - Answer Organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different
organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host
Pathogen - Answer Agent that causes disease such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus
PPE - Answer Personal Protective Equipment
Specialized clothing or equipment worn for protection against health and safety hazards
Universal Precautions - Answer Infection control measures that reduce the risk of
transmission of pathogens through exposure to blood or specific body fluids
Vaccine - Answer Preparation of weakened or disabled virus that stimulates antibody
production and provides immunity when injected into the body
Virus - Answer Very small agent made of genetic information (RNA or DNA) surrounded
by a protein coat
, EMT Infectious diseases
How does a virus reproduce? - Answer It cannot reproduce on its own and must take
over a living cell to multiply
What 3 things must you do to help avoid infection from fluids and airborne particles? -
Answer (1) Wear PPE
(2) decontaminate equipment
(3) wash hands frequently
What sequence do you don your PPE? - Answer MEGG
Mask, Eye protection, Gown, Gloves
If there is the potential for fluids, what is the minimum PPE? - Answer Eye protection,
Gown, & gloves
What sequence do you doff PPE? - Answer GGEM
Gloves, Gown (handwash for 20+ sec), Eye Protection, Mask (handwash for 20+ sec)
What is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of disease? - Answer
Washing your hands!
(with soap and water for at least 20 seconds)
2 steps of equipment decontamination: - Answer (1) Cleaning - removing visible
contamination (like blood)
(2) disinfecting - wiping clean surface with disinfecting sol'n
After completing a call involving an infectious pt, what must you decontaminate? -
Answer EVERYTHING!
Including: equipment that was exposed/cross-contaminated, outside of kits,
stethoscopes, radios, AEDs, wheel, doorhandles, clipboard, headsets, gurney, etc
Where is Staphylococcus aureus most commonly carried? - Answer On the skin or in
the nose of healthy people
How is MRSA most frequently transmitted? - Answer By direct skin-to-skin contact or
contact with shared items or surfaces that have been in contact with someone else's
infection
Infectious Disease - Answer an illness resulting in exposure to a microbial pathogen
Antibodies - Answer proteins made by the immune system that have a memory for an
invading virus and help to recognize and destroy future invasions by that virus
Antibiotic - Answer medicine or drug that is effective in killing bacteria or inhibiting
bacterial growth
Bacteria - Answer single-celled microscopic organism that can cause damage to the
body's cells; multiply quickly by dividing
BSI - Answer Body Substance Isolation
Infectious contral practice that assumes all body substances including blood, urine,
saliva, feces, tears, etc., are potentially infectious
Epidemic - Answer Outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads among many in an
area or population at the same time
MRSA - Answer Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Type of staph bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics
Pandemic - Answer Outbreak of a contagious dz that affects an entire population over a
wide geographical area?
What is larger in scope, pandemic or epidemic? - Answer Pandemic affects a far higher
number of people and much larger region
Parasite - Answer Organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different
organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host
Pathogen - Answer Agent that causes disease such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus
PPE - Answer Personal Protective Equipment
Specialized clothing or equipment worn for protection against health and safety hazards
Universal Precautions - Answer Infection control measures that reduce the risk of
transmission of pathogens through exposure to blood or specific body fluids
Vaccine - Answer Preparation of weakened or disabled virus that stimulates antibody
production and provides immunity when injected into the body
Virus - Answer Very small agent made of genetic information (RNA or DNA) surrounded
by a protein coat
, EMT Infectious diseases
How does a virus reproduce? - Answer It cannot reproduce on its own and must take
over a living cell to multiply
What 3 things must you do to help avoid infection from fluids and airborne particles? -
Answer (1) Wear PPE
(2) decontaminate equipment
(3) wash hands frequently
What sequence do you don your PPE? - Answer MEGG
Mask, Eye protection, Gown, Gloves
If there is the potential for fluids, what is the minimum PPE? - Answer Eye protection,
Gown, & gloves
What sequence do you doff PPE? - Answer GGEM
Gloves, Gown (handwash for 20+ sec), Eye Protection, Mask (handwash for 20+ sec)
What is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of disease? - Answer
Washing your hands!
(with soap and water for at least 20 seconds)
2 steps of equipment decontamination: - Answer (1) Cleaning - removing visible
contamination (like blood)
(2) disinfecting - wiping clean surface with disinfecting sol'n
After completing a call involving an infectious pt, what must you decontaminate? -
Answer EVERYTHING!
Including: equipment that was exposed/cross-contaminated, outside of kits,
stethoscopes, radios, AEDs, wheel, doorhandles, clipboard, headsets, gurney, etc
Where is Staphylococcus aureus most commonly carried? - Answer On the skin or in
the nose of healthy people
How is MRSA most frequently transmitted? - Answer By direct skin-to-skin contact or
contact with shared items or surfaces that have been in contact with someone else's
infection
