PMLS Review Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Nosocomial Infection - ANSWERSAcquired after 48 hours of hospitalization
Community-acquired infection - ANSWERSA person who enters a health care facility with an infection
Local infection - ANSWERSInfection in a certain area of the body
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Nosocomial Infection - ANSWERSAcquired after 48 hours of hospitalization
Community-acquired infection - ANSWERSA person who enters a health care facility with an infection
Local infection - ANSWERSInfection in a certain area of the body
Systemic infection - ANSWERSAffects the entire body
Communicable disease - ANSWERSDisease that spreads from person to person
Autogenous infection - ANSWERSInfection from a person's own flora
Direct contact - ANSWERSDirect physical transfer of infective material
Indirect contact - ANSWERSInfective material via an object
Droplet - ANSWERSTravel 1 meter or less from the infected person
Vehicle - ANSWERSThrough contaminated items
Airborne - ANSWERSTransfer on air, such as tuberculosis
Vector - ANSWERSTransmission by insects
, Universal Precautions - ANSWERSA response to the increase of blood-borne diseases
Amniotic - ANSWERSFluid in an unborn child
Pleural - ANSWERSFluid from lungs
Peritoneal - ANSWERSFluid from abdominal area
Edematous - ANSWERSFluid that built up in body tissues
Pericardial - ANSWERSFluid from heart
Seminal - ANSWERSFluid from the penis
Synovial - ANSWERSFluid from joints
Cerebrospinal - ANSWERSFluid from spinal column
Body Substance Isolation - ANSWERSAssumed that each patient had the potential to spread disease
through body substance
Standard precautions - ANSWERSA strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that
all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
Engineering controls - ANSWERSMechanical systems and devices engineered into the architecture of a
building, for example, exhaust systems, sanitary plumbing
Sharps container - ANSWERSA puncture-proof container designed specifically to safely dispose of
needles, scalpels, and other sharp disposable medical instruments
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