What is the difference between standard and additional precautions?

What is the difference between standard and additional precautions?

Rationale: Additional precautions are measures used in addition to Standard Precautions when extra practices are required to prevent transmission of specific infectious diseases.

What is additional precaution?

Additional Precautions are infection prevention and control precautions and practices required in addition to Routine Practices. They are based on the mode (means) of transmission of the infectious agent: airborne, droplet, and contact.

What are additional precautions and when should they be used what additional precautions should be taken?

In healthcare facilities generally, standard precautions alone are often not sufficient to prevent the transmission of infectious agents. Additional precautions deal with situations of extra risk. They specify procedures for dealing with the patient who: has, or is carrying, a highly transmissible infection.

When do you use additional precautions?

Additional Precautions are based on the mode of transmission of the causative organism. Additional Precautions are used as an adjunct to Routine Practices when microorganisms are: Highly infectious • Known to create severe disease • Difficult to treat (antibiotic resistant).

What are standard precautions Australia?

Standard precautions are basic infection prevention and control strategies that apply to everyone, regardless of their perceived or confirmed infectious status. Strategies include hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, cleaning, and appropriate handling and disposal of sharps.

Should standard or additional precautions be used for MRSA?

Other microorganisms that may be transmitted by contact with intact skin or with contaminated environmental surfaces (e.g. MRSA, VRE, C. difficile). Hand hygiene is particularly important with contact precautions as the infection is spread by touch and often on caregivers’ hands.

What are the 9 key areas that define standard precautions?

Standard precautions include: • hand hygiene, before and after every episode of patient contact (ie 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene); • the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) – see Table 2; • the safe use and disposal of sharps; • routine environmental cleaning; • reprocessing of reusable medical equipment and …

What are the three types of additional precautions?

Types of Additional Precautions. There are three categories of additional precautions: contact precautions, droplet precautions, and airborne precautions.

What standard precautions are used for patients known to have MRSA?

Use Contact Precautions when caring for patients with MRSA (colonized, or carrying, and infected). Contact Precautions mean: Whenever possible, patients with MRSA will have a single room or will share a room only with someone else who also has MRSA.