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Universal Precautions. To avoid getting infected with HIV, Hepatitis B or C or another communicable disease, use the following precautions when you come into contact with any body fluids or fecal matter. In order to be safe and not to discriminate, assume that everyone is infectious.
Standard precautions combine the major features of universal precautions (UP) and body substance isolation (BSI), and are based on the principle that all blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions (except sweat), non-intact skin and mucous membranes may contain transmissible infectious agents.
Description of the tool: Universal infection-control precautions are practices that schools, like other organizations, need to follow to prevent a variety of diseases. Precautions should include policies on caring for wounds, cleaning-up blood spills and disposing of medical supplies.
29 Ιουλ 2023 · Universal precautions do not apply to sputum, feces, sweat, vomit, tears, urine, or nasal secretions unless they are visibly contaminated with blood because their transmission of Hepatitis B or HIV is extremely low or nonexistent.
Universal precautions are intended to prevent parenteral, mucous membrane, and nonintact skin exposures of health-care workers to bloodborne pathogens. In addition, immunization with HBV vaccine is recommended as an important adjunct to universal precautions for health-care workers who have exposures to blood(3A)(4A).
Best protection against HIV and other transmissible infections is attention to every detail of asepsis, with special care to avoid injury during operation. Each hospital should have clear guidelines for the management of injury or exposure to infectious materials.
11 Δεκ 2023 · This NIH fact sheet on HIV Prevention provides key points including reducing risk of HIV, medicines used to prevent transmission, testing, and perinatal exposure.
