Aural Rehabilitation Module 6 and 7

This relates to how quickly our body can identify the organism, create the troops to kill the organism, and get rid of it.

Virulence

That ______________________ is also related to how quickly that organism can reproduce in us. If we don't identify it quickly and it reproduces very quickly, then it can make us sick quickly and it is a virile organism.

Virulence

____________________________ is the number of organisms you've been in contact with.

Titer

An intact immune system is very good at fending off organisms but our immune systems aren't always intact. This describes the ________________________________________ of the host.

Resistance of the Host

The _____________________________________ being the overall number you're are spreading from 1 person to another and is directly related to

when was the last time you cleaned your hands

when was the last time you disinfected the specula

when was the last time you cleaned the hearing aid

Titer

What do you have more control over:

_________________ is cold sterilization. It is toxic and carcinogenic.

gluteraldehyde

_____________________________ is a large chamber that is capable of handling things vulnerable to being melted because it uses a chemical bath and a gas to kill the organisms. They are expensive to acquire and maintain and thus impractical for us.

chemclave:

___________________________________________this is the preferred method of sterilization, it is heat or pressure. This is not a good one for us.

autoclave