The goal of surgical asepsis in the medical facility is to ________.

What factors of host susceptibility are related to the pathogen?

The last patient of the day was very ill and vomited twice in the exam room. The first time, she made it to the wastepaper basket, but the second time, she vomited on the examining table and floor. What should you do?

The body’s ability to resist pathogens and disease is called ________.

Aseptic hand washing includes ________.

A primary advantage of placing illuminated red EXIT signs above doorways is that they ________.

The most appropriate way for a highly contagious patient to be seen in a medical office is to ________.

Which patients are especially sensitive to cooler temperatures?

An individual into whom a pathogen has been transmitted and who has little or no immunity to infection by that organism is a ________.

The infection cycle begins when a pathogen is established in the ________.