Question

1. WHICH PEOPLE HAVE HIGHER RISKS FOR INFECTION ( EXAMPLE: PATIENT WITH RECENT SURGERY)

2. LIST THE REASONS THAT OLDER ADULTS ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO INFECTION

3. WHAT ARE 2 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASEPSIS?

Answer 1

Ans1) Risk factors for SSIs:
Having surgery that lasts more than 2 hours.
Having other medical problems or diseases.
Being an elderly adult.
Being overweight.
Smoking.
Having cancer.
Having a weak immune system.
Having diabetes.

2) Older adults become more susceptible to infections due to several factors. As people get older, it is more frequent that they have comorbid conditions, such as diabetes, renal insufficiency and arthritis.

- The appearance of many well-recognized "diseases of aging" tends to mask a similar rise in the susceptibility of the aged to infections.

- The immune response, particularly cell-mediated immunity, declines in efficiency with age, but this change alone does not explain the increased occurrence of infections.

3) Medical asepsis is the reduction of the number of disease-causing agents and their spread. On the other hand, the complete elimination of the disease-causing agents and their spores from the surface of an object is called the surgical asepsis.

- Eg. Of medical asepsis is handwashing, wearing gloves.

- Eg of Surgical asepsis is autoclaving, sterile equipments.

- Surgical asepsis: Medical asepsis + sterilization techniques & equipments.