Review Questions
1. What factors should be considered before beginning emergency care?

2. Why are adverse drug reactions often hard to detect?

3. Fill out the rest of diagram with the elements in the chain of infection.

4. What is the difference between medical asepsis and surgical asepsis?

5. What are the requirements for disposing of biohazardous material?

Critical Thinking Questions
1. Imagine that there has been an emergency and you are calling 911. Write a brief paragraph describing the situation and giving what necessary information you would give on the phone call.

2. Under what circumstances would a health care professional not begin an examination by checking the vital signs?

3. If a woman is in an accident and her blood pressure is high immediately afterwards, is this an indication of a health problem?

4. The unit discusses the importance of hand washing in health care. Think of three other industries that would need to be especially careful about hand washing and explain its important in these fields.

5. Think about the kinds of common errors in health care described in Unit 6. How could root cause analysis be used to help health care facilities avoid errors?