5.1 Human Pathogens Part 2

Question 1

When should standard precautions be used?

Answer 1

with all patients due to unknown status

Question 2

What are contact precautions?

Answer 2

limit the spread of infection via hand or fomites when a patient has a drug resistant infection, would/lesion infection, or C diff

Question 3

What do contact precautions include?

Answer 3

1. limit patient transport
2. own room
3. extra attention to hand washing
4. gloves and barrier gowns
5. single use objects

Question 4

What are fomites?

Answer 4

objects

Question 5

When are droplet precautions taken?

Answer 5

when the infection does not suspend in the air, requiring close contact for transmission

Question 6

What are examples of when droplet precautions should be taken?

Answer 6

respiratory infections such as flu, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, and plague

Question 7

What are examples of droplet precautions?

Answer 7

standard precautions plus the wearing of a procedural mask for workers

Question 8

When are airborne precautions taken?

Answer 8

taken when the microbe spreads through fine respiratory aerosols that can remain suspended in the air

Question 9

What are examples of when airborne precautions need to be taken?

Answer 9

TB, measles, chicken pox, COVID, SARS

Question 10

What are the airborne precautions protocols?

Answer 10

1. patient placed in airborne infection isolation rooms
2. standard precautions plus N95 mask