Bloodborne Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Bloodborne and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| You Are At Risk! As a healthcare worker, you come into contact with bloodborne pathogens. These are infectious organisms, usually viruses, which live in human blood and other potentially infectious body fluids.The most important ones are...
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
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| Who is infected? Patients with Hepatitis B and other bloodborne infections can appear healthy, so you can't tell whose blood is infectious.So treat all:blood, body fluids, secretions (except sweat), excretions, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes as if they were infectious.That's what the term Standard Precautions means. | View Page |
| Introduction Blood is normally sterile. Any bacterial growth in the bloodstream is abnormal, and is an important cause of fever.Blood culture means the incubation
of blood in appropriate media to allow growth and identification of bacteria or other organisms that may be present in a patient’s bloodstream.
Blood cultures are performed on febrile patients to identify and treat bloodborne organisms with the most appropriate antibiotic. | View Page |