Airborne precautions

For most bacteria, use infection control guidelines standard precautions. If appropriate, or the identity of the bacteria is unknown, use additional droplet and airborne precautions. Avoid direct contact with wounds or wound drainage. 

Communicability Direct person-to-person transmission is possible. When dealing with infected individuals, use airborne precautions. 

Communicability Direct person-to-person transmission is possible. It is communicable from the onset of the rash until the last scab falls off. When dealing with infected individuals, use airborne precautions. 

Isolation Procedures Once a victim of chemical or biological agents or weapons gets to the hospital or another healthcare facility, that person may have to abide by patient isolation procedures. These include Standard Precautions, Airborne Precautions, Droplet Precautions, and Contact Precautions. These precautions are spelled out in the third edition of Medical Management Of Biological Casualties Handbook published by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease located at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. 

Airborne Precautions Standard Precautions plus Place the patient in a private room that has negative air pressure, at least six air changes/hour, and appropriate filtration of air before it is discharged from the room. Use respiratory protection when entering the room. Limit movement and transport of the patient, and use a mask on the patient if they need to be moved. 

Post-mortem Care Follow Standard Precautions, airborne precautions, contact precautions, use of HEPA hood by all entering room, and negative pressure required. At the present time, there is no pre-exposure or post-exposure immunoprophylaxis available for humans. 

Airborne precautions using correct ventilation including negative air-pressure rooms with high-efficiency particulate air filtration should be initiated for hospitalized confirmed or suspected smallpox patients, unless the entire facility has been restricted to smallpox patients and recently vaccinated persons. 

Conventional diseases requiring airborne precautions measles, varicella, pulmonary tuberculosis. 

Biothreat diseases requiring airborne precautions smallpox. 

Although the risk of airborne transmission is hypothetical, airborne precautions are sensible in specific situations. Hospitals should consider using airborne precautions for suspected VHP who have severe pulmonary disease or who undergo procedures that stimulate coughing and generate aerosols, such as ... 

The CDC has a list of appropriate Airborne Precautions at http //www.cdc.gov/ ncidod/dhqp/gl isolation airbome.html... 

Smallpox Assumed low 10-100 organisms Pharyngeal swab, scab material ELISA, PCR, viral isolation Airborne Precautions... 

Box 4.11 Health Protection Agency guidance for airborne precautions for high potency viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHP) ... 

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