HTHSCI 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lyme Disease, Long-Term Care, Asepsis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 2HH3
• Professor: Dr. Kirsten Culver

Document Summary

3 key things for causing infection source, means of transmission, and susceptible host: figure out how to break the chain of infection. Transmission: how it gets around: contact skin to skin, droplet. B and c: vector (mosquito, deer ticks for lyme disease, mosquitos for zika virus as well. Susceptible hosts: age (the very old and the very young) Immunosuppression: may be due to medical process, no immunity, can be towards one specific pathogen based on lack of vaccination, chronic underlying conditions (diabetes, emergency procedures. 02-12-18: a lot of ipac principles are put aside in emergency department, hand hygiene is not the greatest, lack of aseptic technique. Strategize for (cid:271)reaking the (cid:272)hain : risk elimination, risk reduction and risk prevention. Hand hygiene: good hand hygiene can terminate outbreaks in health care facilities, reduce transmission of antimicrobial resistant organisms and reduce overall infection rates.