Question 1: Describe the three methods for ensuring your office autoclave is working properly.
A. What type of tests are they, chemical, etc?
B. How often should you perform each test?
C. What specific information does each test give you?
D. Which technique is the most rigorous for confirming sterilization is taking place? If that particular test fails, what are some reasons it may have failed? Provide at least 2 reasons.
Question 2: After treating a patient, you notice some spattered saliva with blood on the chair and tray table. You can't find a jug of Caviwipes, but someone offers you a container of disinfectant wipes to use instead from their office nearby (wipes they bought at the grocery store). Why might you not want to use those wipes?
A. What level of disinfectant are Caviwipes and what organisms must your disinfectant wipes be able to kill in order to be used for clinical contact surfaces?
B. After more searching, you track down a jug of Caviwipes and proceed to quickly (in a couple seconds) wipe up the contaminated area with Caviwipes and then dry off the area of excess Cavicide with a dry paper towel. Discuss the appropriateness of this technique.
Question 3: A dentist you're working with prescribes amoxicillin to treat an oral infection in your patient. However, three days later the patient returns and the infection has not begun to resolve despite taking the amoxicillin as prescribed, in fact it is getting worse. Why might the antibiotic not be working?
A. What enzyme produced by some bacteria might be preventing the function of amoxicillin?
B. How might you alter the treatment to better resolve this infection? Give two possible approaches.
Question 4: A person ignores a cut on their leg that has started to get infected and swell. For several days the lesion progresses, and the redness and tissue discoloration spread to cover larger and larger area of the surrounding skin and the tender lesion penetrates deeper each day. After 5 days the patient is taken to the hospital with high fever, weakness, and feeling disoriented. They are diagnosed with endotoxic septic shock and are put on intravenous antibiotics.
A. Based on the diagnosis, what type of organism caused this life-threatening infection?
B. What would be a potential antibiotic for treating this infection? Why?
C. Due to the nature of the spreading lesion, name at least one degradative enzyme that might enhance spreading into deeper tissues.
Please answer?