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Contact isolation is used for patient's who have or have had an illness that is spreadable by contact with the person or items that the patient may have touched. Examples of contact isolation conditions are patient's with active c-diff, MRSA, VRE, etc.
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What type of isolation should you follow when a patient is under your direct care?
Berlin isolation
Which of the following conditions requires reverse isolation?
Leukemia
Should a patient with a gram positive cocci sputum specimen be placed in respiratory isolation?
yes
Where do scientists isolate DNA?
Isolation of the DNA requires a well equiped and proper environmental conditions. Generally DNA is isolated in the laboratories.
What is the name for a type of isolation that prevents species from interbreeding?
there are six types which are below: 1. geographical isolation 2. ecological (habitat) isolation 3. behavioral (ethological) isolation 4. temporal isolation 5. structural (mechanical) isolation 6. gamete mortality (gamete isolation)
What are prevention strategies for sars?
Case detection, patient isolation and contact tracing.
Does a patient with Disseminated shingles need to be isolated?
Yes, a person with disseminated shingles should be on contact and respiratory isolation.
What type of laboratory test(s) would NOT be conducted if you suspect a patient has contracted plague?
Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry would not be conducted. The first thing that would happen if plague is suspected is immediate isolation. Contact with an infected patient needs to be minimized and the hospital needs to be equipped to handle that patient.
Can you please put isolation in a sentence?
Due to the nature of the disease the patient was put into isolation.
What is the difference between source isolation and protective isolation?
Source isolation is stoping staff receiving an infection from a infected patient and protective isolation is to stop the patient receiving an infection from pathogens brought from outside the hospital via visitors etc...
What is enteric isolation?
Enteric isloation refers to the avoidence of any contact with bodily fluids of a patient due to pathogens or chemotherapy treatment that can be transmitted via these fluids.
What type of isolation should you follow when a patient is under your direct care?
Berlin isolation
Allopatric speciation requires?
geographic isolation.
What type of isolation for pulmonary tuberculosis patient what information do you want the patient to know for their own protection and the protection of other?
they need to be on strict isolation precaution. and the patient needs to continue their medication regiment for the FULL time as prescribed
Which of the following conditions requires reverse isolation?
Leukemia
Should housekeeping clean a room if a patient is in isolation?
yes
What is the acute phase of adult schizophrenia?
In the acute phase, the patient has an overt loss of contact with reality (psychotic episode) that requires intervention and treatment.
