Isolation precautions

Vigilant hand washing and isolation precautions are keys to controlling C. difficile. 

Isolation Precautions for Bubonic Plague Standard precautions for all aspects of care including strict hand washing with antimicrobial soap. 

Section 8 Mobilize community resources and conduct community education Section 9 Make advance preparations to use VHF isolation precautions... 

Annex 4 Adapting VHF isolation precautions for a large number of patients... 

Annex 14 Conducting in-service training for VHF isolation precautions Annex 15 Local resources for community mobilization and education Annex 16 International and regional contacts... 

In 1995, an outbreak of Ebola VHF affected more than three hundred people in and around the city of Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the former Zaire) and approximately 80 percent of the victims died. An international investigation team worked with local authorities to introduce VHF isolation precautions as well as standard precautions. When the types of precaution featured in the manual mentioned above were installed in Kikwit, no further nosocomial (hospital) transmission of the Ebola virus was documented. 

Health care workers who come in contact with patients in whom anthrax is suspected should use universal precautions at all times, including the use of rubber gloves, disposal of sharps, and frequent hand washing. No human-to-human transmission of anthrax has been reported and respiratory isolation precautions are not needed. Patients with inhalational or cutaneous anthrax should be placed on contact isolation, due to the potential for contact with open wounds or wound drainage. 

For autopsy personnel examining bodies infected with anthrax when appropriate isolation precautions and procedures are followed... 

Garner, JS. Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quahty Promotion http //www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/gl isolation.html. Last accessed 4/15/06... 

Agent Infective Dose (Aerosol) Diagnostic Samples Diagnostic Assay Patient Isolation Precautions... 

Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Guidelines for isolation precaution in hospitals. Am J Infect Control 24 24-52, 1996. 

If cases of the disea.se do appear, current social and economic conditions often favor the spread of an epidemic within health-care facilities. Therefore, health-care providers must be able to recognize a case of Ebola HF should one appear. They must also have the capability to perform diagnostic tests and be ready to employ practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions, or... 

Guideline for Isolation Precautions Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007)... 

Gamer, J.S. Guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 17 53-80, 1996. 

Morgan DJ, Kaye KS, Diekema DJ. Reconsidering Isolation Precautions for Endemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus. Jama-J Am Med Assoc. 2014 312(14) 1395-6. 

It should be remembered that it is almost always advisable to calculate molar rather than weight proportions (or percentages) of any molecular species isolated. Precautions should be taken to minimise the effects of autoxidation (see Chapter 2). Procedures for the analysis of molecular species of lipids have been dealt with in several monographs [163,168,506,510] in addition to many shorter reviews on specific topics (see below). 

Garner JS, HICPAC. Draft guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Fed Reg 1994 59(part V) 55552-55570. 

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