Exam 3: The Laboratory Role in Infection Control

An example of an emerging disease is:

To keep abreast of all infections that occur in the hospital, infection control practitioners set up surveillance programs.These surveillance programs look at which parameter to determine if there are more or fewer infections in a given period?

In an outbreak investigation and in the collection of routine surveillance data, what sorts of activities are critical?

The hospital infection control committee will expect reports from the laboratory that deal with all the following except:

What is practiced throughout the hospital and mandates safety for all personnel when handling blood and body fluids?

Prisoners or people housed in behavioral health facilities are more likely to contract infections with pathogens from their intimate contact with blood and body fluids.A likely pathogen may be:

Information that the microbiology laboratory can provide to infection control practitioners includes:

What program involves a close watch of only specific, high-risk, high-volume procedures for nosocomial infections?

An index case is:

Although environmental cultures are not usually performed because the environment is rarely implicated in disease transmission, they occasionally are useful.Samples will be taken from all of the following except:

The role of the microbiology laboratory is to perform cultures and provide culture results to health care providers.The microbiology laboratory also has the responsibility to report:

The counties surrounding yours are seeing an increase in the number of whooping cough cases.This is important for the microbiology laboratory because:

An iatrogenic infection is one that is:

Organisms that represent public health concerns can be recovered from patients in an acute care hospital.All of the following isolates are considered significant or major public health concerns that are reportable to public health jurisdictions to follow up as a potential outbreak except:

A microbiology technologist is working at the bench and notices that a patient from the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) grows a Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium that is an extended-spectrum b-lactamase-producing isolate.This technologist would advise the physician to:

What types of activities have led to the emergence of the microbiology laboratory as the forefront in keeping Americans safe?

If a large statewide or worldwide epidemic occurs, one of the major difficulties is:

An outbreak occurs when:

When reviewing surgical site infections, the infection control practitioner must determine if the patient's infection is health care-associated by considering all the following except:

In the United States, 15 to 20 outbreaks annually owing to waterborne pathogens cause which illness and affect several thousand people?