three days before a nurse developed meningococcemia, she assisted with intubation of a patient with a Neisseria meningitidis infectoin. Of the 24 medical personnel involved, only this nurse became ill. the nurse recalled that she was exposed to nasopharyngeal secretions and did not receive antibiotic prophylaxis.
Polly P
I wonder if she forgot to wear a face mask and got the secretions flicked up at her?
TweetyBird
"what two mistakes did the nurse make?" -- You already named the two mistakes, and I quote: "she was exposed to nasopharyngeal secretions and did not receive antibiotic prophylaxis". So why are you asking questions you've already answered?
I don't know that the nurse wasn't wearing a mask. I don't know where the secretions were on her but based on my own experience with this procedure, I'd assume they landed somewhere on her face or upper body and that she was not wearing a mask. Unthinkable that this would be considering it was an intubation.
"how is meningitis transmitted?" -- And you are speaking of bacterial meningitis. Meningitis can be spread via nose and throat secretions (coughing, sneezing, and kissing). However, meningitis is not considered to be a highly contagious disease and casual contact or breathing in the air where a person with meningitis has been normally would not expose someone to meningitis because the causative organisms cannot live outside the body for very long. There's both acute and subacute meningitis.
matador 89
Johnlm09,
Already noted by other answers – the answers are in your question, which is presumably from a test or exam question. Also known as meningococcemia, Neisseria meningitidis can range in severity from a transient bacteremia that is relatively benign, to an overwhelming infection that is rapidly fatal. As the human nasopharynx is the only known reservoir for N meningitides, Meningococci are spread from person to person by airborne droplets of infected nasopharyngeal secretions. The errors made were not wearing complete barrier-nursing clothing during the assistance of the intubation and, after the contact, not reporting the fact to obtain necessary examination and prophylactic treatment.
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