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Some examples of diseases requiring these precautions are tuberculosis, measles, and chickenpox.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoExamples of disease requiring droplet precautions are meningococcal meningitis (a serious bacterial infection of the lining of the brain), influenza, mumps, and German measles (rubella).
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What kind of hospital isolation for shingles?
Airborne precautions
What are airborne precautions?
Airborne precautions are required to protect against airborne transmission of infectious agents.Diseases requiring airborne precautions include, but are not limited to: Measles, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Varicella (chickenpox), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Preventing airborne transmission requires personal respiratory protection and special ventilation and air handling.
When tissues are NOT available coughing and sneezing into your sleeve NOT into your hands is an element of what precautions?
airborne precautions
Which disease requires use of airborne precautions?
influenza
List down 3 precautions used in isolation and culturing procedures?
Airborne precaution, contact precaution and respiratory precautions are the 3 precautions used in isolation
What type of precautions are you under for urosepsis?
Universal code. No contact or droplet or airborne.
What are 3 types of transmission based precautions of microorganisms?
airborne, droplet, and contact
What piercings require specific safety precautions?
All piercings require specific safety precautions.
Can urine carry airborne diseases?
Normally urine will not carry the airborne diseases. As urine is generated from ultra-filtrate. But then this is not the rule of thumb and you may find some infection or at least some individual, who can transmit the airborne infection by way of urine.
Difference between airborne and waterborne diseases?
Waterborne diseases are caused by microorganisms which are directly transmitted when contaminated fresh water is consumed. Airborne diseases are those diseases which are caused by pathogenic microbial agents which get discharged through coughing, sneezing, laughing or through close personal contact.
Does a Rectal examination require safety precautions?
There are no precautions when performing it, aside from routine sanitary procedures
What is the difference between standard precautions and universal precautions?
Where infectious diseases are the issue, there is no difference between universal precautions and standard precautions. The suite of procedures called "universal precautions" should now be the standard precautions used in all cases of patient contact.
