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A protective procedure that limits the spread of infectious diseases amount hospitalized patients, hospital personnel, and visitors has been used
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Isolation
A protective procedure that limits the spread of infectious diseases amount hospitalized patients, hospital personnel, and visitors has been used
Airborne precautions
Used for patients who have infections that spread through the air such as tuberculosis, varicella, rubeola, and possibly SARS
Droplet precautions
Use these for patients with an infection that is spread by large-particles droplets such as rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and the adenovirus infection in infants and young children.
Contact precautions
Use these for patients who are infected or colonized by a multi drug- resistant organism (MDRO)
Neutropenia precautions
Those who are recovering from transplantation surgery or receiving chemotherapy. Those who are immunosuppressed become infected by organisms harbors in their own bodies.