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  Standard Precautions / Universal Precautions Applies to ALL BODY FLUIDS Includes: 1.       HAND WASHING 2.       Personal Protective Equipment (sequence of removing PPE’s) gloves-mask-gown-eyewear-cap 3.       Safe use of sharps 4.       Removing spills of blood and body fluids 5.       Cleaning and disinfecting equipment Transmission Based Precautions • Airborne precautions A single room under negative pressure ventilation with a wash hand basin The door must be kept closed at all times except during necessary entrances and exits. Disposable paper towels A high efficiency mask, if available, should be worn when entering the room of a patient with known or suspected tuberculosis. • Droplet precautions Put on a standard mask prior to entering the isolation room.  Hands must be washed with an antisepti...

MODE OF TRANSMISSION it indicates the potential of the disease; conveyance of the agent to the host; it can be by common source transmission, contact source, air-borne transmission. There are four main routes of transmission By Contact Transmission             1. Direct contact ( person to person )             2. Indirect contact ( usually an inanimate object)             3. Droplet contact ( from coughing, sneezing, or                             talking, or talking by an infected person) By Vehicle Route ( through contaminated items)             1. Food – salmonellosis    ...

  Field Health Service Information System ( FHSIS)   Individual Treatment Record (ITR ) Fundamental building block or foundation FHSIS.   Target Client List (TCL) Such lists will be of considerable value to midwives/nurses in monitoring service delivery to clients in general and in particular to groups of patients identified as “targets” or “eligibles” for one or another program of the Department   Summary Table Composed of Health Program Accomplish and Morbidity Diseases   The Monthly Consolidation Table (MCT) FHSIS Reporting   Monthly Form 1.       Program report (M1) 2.       Morbidity report (M2)   Prepare by Midwife   Every 2 nd week of the month is the submission   Quarterly Form 1.       Program report (Q1) 2.       Morbidity report (Q2)   Prepared by Nurse   Every 3 rd wee...

The  Integrated Management of Childhood Illness or IMCI  has several key points in the promotion and restoration of health of children in the community. It has been improved to provide a more integrated approach to managing sickchildren by UNICEF in cooperation with the WHO. The  main objectives of IMCI  involves the reduction of significantly global child mortality and morbidity associated with the major causes of illness and as well contribute to the promotion of healthy growth and development of children.  Its components basically encompass the improvement of several aspects of health in the community, which are: Skills of health workers in case management Health care delivery system Family and community health practices The  Integrated Management of Childhood Illness  does not only emphasize the adjustment of curative interventions in the community but to encourage the active involvemen...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Tetanus: WOUND CULTURE Meningitis: LUMBAR PUNCTURE Encephalitis: EEG Polio: EMG; Muscle testing Rabies: Brain biopsy (Negri bodies) Fluorescent rabies antibody test Dengue: TOURNIQUET test (Rumpel lead) Malaria: Malarial smear; QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat) Scarlet: DICK'S TEST; SCHULTZ-CHARLTON TEST Diphtheria: SCHICK'S TEST; Moloney's Test Pertussis: Nasal swab; agar plate Tuberculosis: MANTOUX test Leprosy: SLIT SKIN SMEAR Pinworm: SCOTCH TAPE SWAB Typhoid: WIDAL'S test HIV/AIDS: ELISA; WESTERN BLOT; PCT: Polymerase Chain Reaction Test

DRUG OF CHOICE Tetanus: PEN G Na; TETRACYCLINE; (use straw, with meals)DIAZEPAM (Valium) Diphteria: PEN G K; ERYTHROMYCIN Pertusis: ERYTHROMYCIN; AMPICILLIN Meningitis: MANNITOL (osmotic diuretic); DEXAMETHASONE (anti-inflammatory); DILANTIN/PHENYTOIN (anti-convulsive); PYRETINOL/ENCEPHABO L (CNS stimulant ) Cholera: TETRACYCLINE Amoebic Dysentery: METRONIDAZOLE Shigellosis: CO-TRIMOXAZOLE Typhoid: CHORAMPHENICOL Rabies: LYSSAVAC, VERORAB Immunoglobulins: ERIG or HRIg Malaria: CHLOROQUINE Schistosomiasis: PRAZIQUANTEL Felariasis: DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE CITRATE Scabies: EURAX/ CROTAMITON Chicken pox: ACYCLOVIR/ZOVIRAX Leptospirosis: PENICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN Leprosy: DAPSONE, RIFAMPICIN Anthrax: PENICILLIN Tuberculosis: R.I.P.E.S. Pneumonia: COTRIMOXAZOLE; Procaine Penicillin Helminths: MEBENDAZOLE; PYRANTEL PAMOATE Meningitis: MANNITOL (dec. ICP) ; DEXAMETHASONE ( relieve cerebral edema) ; DIAZEPAM ( anticonvulsant) ; PENICILLIN Syphilis...

CAUSATIVE AGENTS Tetanus: CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI Meningococcemia: NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS Rabies: RHABDOVIRUS Poliomyelitis: LEGIO DEBILITANS (Type I Brunhilde); (Type II Lansing); (Type III Leon) Dengue Fever: ARBOVIRUSES (Chikunggunya); (Onyong-nyong); (West Nile); (Flaviviruses) (Common in the Phil.) Malaria: PLASMODIUM (protozoa) P. Falciparum (most fatal); P. Vivax P. Malariae; P. Ovale Filariasis: WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; BRUGIA MALAYI Leprosy: MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE Measles: PARAMYXO VIRUS German measles: TOGA VIRUS Chicken pox: VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS Herpes zoster: HERPES ZOSTER VIRUS Scarlet fever: Group A HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS Scabies: SARCOPTES SCABIEI (itch mite) Bubonic plague: YERSINIA PESTIS Diphtheria: KLEBS LOEFFLER Pertussis: BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS Tuberculosis: MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS Typhoid: SALMONELLA TYPHI Cholera: VIBRIO CHOLERA Amoebiasis: ENTAMOEBA HYSTOLITICA Leptospirosis: LEPTOSPIRA Spirochete Schistosomiasis: Schistosoma jap...

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