Outbreaks

Along with learning in class about infection control, we were able to watch a movie that would help us better understand. In the movie Outbreak infection control is used to show positive and negative outcomes.

Standard precautions are used to provide someone with precautions and awareness to prevent the spread of diseases and infections. For example washing your hands when needed. Examples are being soiled and a after coughing and sneezing. The process of washing your hangs is known to be the fastest and easiest way to prevent the spread of germs.

In the movie Outbreak there were many ways that standard precautions were taken. When Sam and Kasey go into the lab room to check out the disease for the first time they made sure to dress properly. When Sam and Kasey are helping each other, Kasey notices a tear in Sam's suit, Kasey right away takes care of the tear and covers its with some sort of tape. This is a very good use of standard precaution. Also another way the cast took precautions was always wearing special protective suits whenever there was a possibility with coming in contacts with the disease. This was very good because they used this even before they knew that the disease wasn't airborne.

In the video Outbreak it also gives examples to what went wrong and how everything spread so quickly. The first thing that went wrong and cause the disease to spread when Jimbo went to deliver the monkey (who was the host of the disease) to the pet store and it bit the pet store owner as well as another monkey. When Jimbo returned and saw his girlfriend he kissed her and also got her infected. After the medical teams realized that this might be a problem they began to test blood. They tested the pet storeowners blood. The lab tech that was dealing with the blood wasn't paying attention to what he was doing and the blood splashed up all over his face and body. Automatically the lab tech caught the disease. Two things that went wrong while he was testing the blood were, the lab tech should have been wearing PPE (protective personal equipment) such as goggles.

In the video Outbreak standard precautions are taken everyday. The best way to fight infection is to always wash your hands And day by day the CDC helps to improve the way we can live our life day by day.