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Infection Control Precautions

This document outlines airborne, droplet, and contact transmission precautions for infection control. Airborne transmission includes measles, SARS, chickenpox, and tuberculosis. Droplet transmission includes sepsis, scarlet fever, pertussis, influenza, diphtheria, and mumps. Contact transmission includes multidrug resistant organisms, respiratory infections like RSV, skin infections, wound infections, and enteric infections like C. difficile. The appropriate precautions for each include private rooms, masks, gloves, and gowns depending on the type of transmission.

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Infection Control Precautions

This document outlines airborne, droplet, and contact transmission precautions for infection control. Airborne transmission includes measles, SARS, chickenpox, and tuberculosis. Droplet transmission includes sepsis, scarlet fever, pertussis, influenza, diphtheria, and mumps. Contact transmission includes multidrug resistant organisms, respiratory infections like RSV, skin infections, wound infections, and enteric infections like C. difficile. The appropriate precautions for each include private rooms, masks, gloves, and gowns depending on the type of transmission.

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Infection Control PrecautionsIts as simple as ADC A - Airborne D - Droplet C - Contact

AIRBORNE TRANMISSION Think of My Stupid Chicken Hez TB My Measles Stupid SARS Chicken Chickenpox Hez Herpes Zoster TB TB DROPLET TRANSMISSION Think of SPIDERMAN S Sepsis S - Scarlet fever S - Streptococcal pharyngitis P - Parvovirus B19 P - Pertussis P - Pneumonia I - Influenza D - Diptheria (Pharyngeal) E - Epiglottitis R - Rubella M - Mumps M - Meningitis M - Mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia An - Adenovirus Required IC Precautions Private Room Mask Required IC Precautions: Private room Negative pressure UV Mask N95 Mask for TB

CONTACT TRANSMISSION Think of MRS.WEE M - Multidrug resistant organism R - Respiratory infection - RSV S - Skin infections (SEE BELOW FOR A LIST) W - Wound infections E - Enteric infections - clostridium defficile (C-Diff) E - Eye infections Skin Infections: V - Varicella zoster C - Cutaneous diptheria H - Herpes simplex I - Impetigo P - Pediculosis S - Scabies, Staphylococcus

Required IC Precautions Private Room Gloves, Gown

Maria Marconi NCLEX Prep 2011

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