Communicable Disease

• Rural health unit – initial treatment done for multidrug therapy that is being
implemented by the DOH in all regions of the country
• Terminal disinfection – patient is not the source of infection
• Concurrent infection – patient is still the source of infection
• Infectivity – agent enters the body
• Virulence – power to cause a disease
• Antigenecity – stimulates antibody
• Pathogenecity – cause infection or disease
• Scabies – drug of choice: Eurax
• Man – reservoir of polio virus
• Antitoxin in diphtheria – to neutralize the toxin
• Pneumonia – rusty sputum
• Paragonimiasis – chronic parasitic infection resembles PTB
• Pneumonia – caused by fatigue, overexposure to inclement weather and exposed
to polluted air
• Number of bites – parameter to categorize bite treatment
• 14 days or 2 weeks – observation of suspected animal infected with rabies should
last
• Cryptosporidiosis – diarrhea in HIV/ AIDS
• Opportunistic infections – last a long time and are violent
• Hepatitis b – increase ALT (SGOT/SGPT) in laboratory
• Histoplasmosis – fungal disease
• Condylomata – genital warts
• Hepa b and Chlamydia – sexual contact disease
• Fluorescent antibody test (FAT) – rabies
• Leptospirosis – microscopic agglutination test (MAT) and leptospira agglutination
test (LAT)
• Flexion of hip and knees with passive flexion of the neck – brudzinski sign in
meningitis
• Madarosis (loss of eyebrow) – late sign in leprosy
• Early signs in leprosy – ulcers that do not heal; loss of sensation in the skin lesion;
change in skin color
• RA 3573 – notifiable disease
• RA 8504 – AIDS prevention act
• RA 4226 – hospital licensure act
• Measles – subcutaneous route
• BCG – intradermal route
• Pregnant woman has german measles – congenital effects: microcephaly,
micropthalmia, patent ductus arteriosus
• Encephalitis – early complication of chicken pox
• Shingles – late complication of chicken pox
• Increase ICP – widening pulse pressure
 • Shock – narrowing pulse pressure
• Legio debelitans – poliomyelitis
• Jaundice – color changes due to inability of the liver to remove normal amounts
of bilirubin from the blood
• Anemia – hookworm infestation
• Hepa a – transmitted feca-oral one to 2 weeks before onset

Orthopedic Nursing
• Presence of “hot spots” on the cast – indicative of infection when assessing the
casted extremity of a client
• Russell’s traction - a knee sling is used
• On the unaffected side – post operative position of total hip replacement
• Side lying on the unaffected side with the affected hip in a position of abduction –
position of patient who had just had a prosthetic hip implant
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