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6. Infections caused by a stay in a healthcare environment
7. Washing hands, sterile techniques, controlled catheter use, sterile surgery, use of silver gauge, patient isolation, rapid testing, nasal swabs are.....
- All prevetion techniques
- Bad practice for busy A&E departments
8. A catheter associated urinary infection is a route of contamination for nosocomial infection
9. Staphylococcus aureus can be methicillin resistant and ____ resistant
- Carbapenem
- Vancomycin
- Amoxillin
10. Causes mild to severe diarrhoea to pseudomembranus collitis
- Clostridium difficile
- Enteramobea gingivalis
- Plasmodium
11. An immunocompromised patient, an elderly patient, exposed wounds, burns, broad spectrum of antibiotics etc are all
- Risk factors for nosocomial infections
- Risk factors for zoonotic infections
12. 15000 cases last year in England and Wales
13. Machines such as ventilators can cause ___________, for example in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)
- Nosocomial infections
- Zoonotic infections
14. Healthcare associated infection
15. Staph aureus are gram _______ cocci that grows in grapelike clusters, catalase +ve and coagulase +ve
16. Surgical site infection is often not a route of contamination for nosocomial infection
17. Staphylococcus aureus infections can lead to bactereamia and sepsis, and occasionally pneumonia
18. Staphylococcus aureus is found on the skin and nose of ___% of the population
19. A central line catheter is a route of contamination for nosocomial infection