Transmission Based Precautions

Sensory deprivation

Condition resulting for decreased sensory input or input that is monotonous, unpatterned, meaningless.

Droplet

PPE used is: Wear gloves and PPE, and wear mask when leaving the room.

5 microns

Smaller than ______ microns of evaporated droplets that remain suspended in air for long periods of time

Hand hygiene, barrier techniques, personal protective equipment.

Three transmission barriers that are used to interrupt the infectious process.

Standard precautions.

Used in care of all hospitals patients regardless of their diagnosis or possible infection status. All body fluids except sweat.

Gloves, gowns, masks, eyewear

What are the four PPE's?

Remove gloves, unfasten gown and roll with inside of gown on the outside, wash hands, remove mask touching only the ties, remove goggles, wash hands.

Correct way of removing PPE in isolation

When is double bagging of trash and linen used?

Only when the outside of the bag is visible soiled.

Contact

PPE used is: Wear PPE, for all interactions. Change gloves after having contact with infective material. Remove PPE when leaving the patient.

Airborne

PPE used is: Wear mask or respirator, respiratory protection should be worn unless immune to the disease.

How are all laboratory specimens transported

Place in plastic bags and seal the bags to prevent leakage during transportation.

Neutropenia precautions

Those who are recovering from transplantation surgery or receiving chemotherapy. Those who are immunosuppressed become infected by organisms harbors in their own bodies.

Airborne and droplet

Transport patient out of room only when necessary and place a surgical mask on patient if possible.

Airborne diseases

Tuberculosis and varicella (chicken pox)

Droplet precautions

Use these for patients with an infection that is spread by large-particles droplets such as rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and the adenovirus infection in infants and young children.

Airborne precautions

Used for patients who have infections that spread through the air such as tuberculosis, varicella, rubeola, and possibly SARS

Transmission based precautions.

Used in addition to standard precautions suspected infections with pathogens that can be transported by airborne, droplet, or contact routes.

Negative air pressure rooms

Where microns and dust particles dispersed widely by air current and can be inhaled.

Excretions and secretions, personal contacts, equipment and supplies.

3 common vehicles that transport pathogens.

Contact diseases

Multi-resistant organisms (MDRO), MRSA, C-Diff

Main purpose of HEPA filter mask or Type N95 respirator mask

Must be worn when entering the room of a patient with known or suspected tuberculosis, SARS, or influenza, to prevent the transmission of these diseases.

Anteroom

Private rooms include these for preparation

Contact

Transporting: limit movement of the patient out of the room.

Contact precautions

Use these for patients who are infected or colonized by a multi drug- resistant organism (MDRO)

Isolation

A protective procedure that limits the spread of infectious diseases amount hospitalized patients, hospital personnel, and visitors has been used

Direct contact

Body surface to body surface contact from susceptible host to infected person- shaking hands

Indirect

Contact of susceptible host with contaminated objects - instruments, needles, dressing, etc.

Droplet diseases

Rubella and mumps, pertussis, streptococcal pharyngitis