transmission-based precautions

Medical term Safety and Compliance

Contact, droplet or airborne measures added on top of standard precautions when a patient has, or may have, an infection spread those ways.

Sources

• Siegel JD, Rhinehart E, Jackson M, Chiarello L, HICPAC. 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings. Am J Infect Control 2007;35(10 Suppl 2):S65-S164 (PMC7119119) · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / HICPAC (PubMed Central copy)

Related terms

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• standard precautionsInfection control used for every patient: treat blood and all body fluids except sweat as infectious, with…
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• susceptible hostA person who can become infected, such as a patient with weak immunity or a worker who is not immune.
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• trailing zeroZero after a decimal point (5.0 mg). Do Not Use list: in medication orders 5.0 can be read as 50; write 5…
• universal precautionsOSHA approach: handle all human blood and certain body fluids as though they contain HBV, HIV or other…
• waived testCLIA category for tests cleared for home use, simple and accurate enough that errors are unlikely, or…
• work practice controlsSafer ways of doing a task that cut exposure risk, for example never recapping a used needle with both hands.

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