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CMTO MCQ exam - 1.2 - ProfessionalPractice:
hygiene and infection control
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What is the definition of Mortality? - ✔✔The number of deaths from a disease
What is Morbidity? - ✔✔Diease rate within a group
What are the communicable diseases that you MUST report? - ✔✔Food Poisoning; Hepatitis A, B,
C; Meningococcal disease; Mumps; Rubella, SARS; Tuberculosis
What Spaulding Classification of hygeine practices does items contacting blood or sterile body tissues
fall under? - ✔✔Critical - requires STERILIZATION
What Spaulding Classification of hygiene practice does items that come in contact with mucous
membranes or non-in tact skin fall under? - ✔✔Semi-Critical - requires HIGH LEVEL or
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL Disinfection
What are examples of non-critical Spaulding Classification situations? - ✔✔When items
contact INTACT skin; or when they do not contact the patient's skin at all
What level of sanitation is required for most tasks required of an RMT? - ✔✔Intermediate -
Cleaning followed by low level disinfectant - Sanitation - reducing microbial levels to SAFE level for
handling;
What levels of skin are affected by FIRST DEGREE burns? - ✔✔The epidermis, and some of the
dermis [upper]
, What levels of skin are affected by SECOND DEGREE burns - ✔✔The epidermis, and all or most of
the dermis
What levels of skin are affected by THIRD/FOURTH DEGREE burns? - ✔✔Epidermis, Dermis, all
the way down through to muscle, and even bone
Why classification of burns is characterized by NO presence of blisters? - ✔✔First Degree
What classification of burns is characterized by the presence of blisters? - ✔✔Second Degree
What classification of burn may be painless AND severe? - ✔✔Third/Fourth degree burns, in
which nerves are damaged
What are the 3 stages of healing, generally speaking? - ✔✔Inflammation; Proliferation; Remodelling
What are the stages of healing for fractures? [5] - ✔✔Inflammation; Inflammation;
Proliferation; Immature bone -> Mature bone; Remodelling
True or False: the first and least intense form of hygiene practice to follow is SANITIZING, the
reduction in microbial population on an inanimate object to a safe or relatively safe level -
✔✔FALSE - it is CLEANING, the physical removal of visible dust, soil and other foreign material
What is the first and least intense hygiene practice to follow? - ✔✔CLEANING - the physical
removal of visible dust, debris, soil and other foreign material
What is the MOST intense hygiene practice to follow? - ✔✔STERILIZATION - killing ALL forms
of microorganisms, including bacteria, spores, viruses, fungi and spores
What hygiene practice is effective at killing spores? - ✔✔STERILIZATION
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