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Airborne - ✔✔Suspended on drops of moisture in the air
Exposure Control Plan - ✔✔A set of written policies and procedures to be
followed at an agency or facility; the purpose is to protect employees
(patients) from infection with diseases
Mucous Droplet - ✔✔A tiny drop of phlegm
Negative Air Pressure Room - ✔✔Room in which the flow of air is
controlled
Particulate Respirator - ✔✔A mask that filters the air breather in, removing
tiny particles
High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) - ✔✔Filters that filter the air in a
room or the air being pulled out of a room
Tuberculosis - ✔✔An airborne disease carried on mucous droplets
suspended in the air and released by an infected person through talking,
coughing, breathing, laughing, singing
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, Organisms that causes TB - ✔✔Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Rod
Shaped Bacilli
Common Sites of Infection - ✔✔-85% of TB infection is in the lungs
-Inflammation and necrosis occur calcifying lung tissue
-It can occur anywhere in the body, but if it occurs in the following: larynx,
lymph nodes, brain, kidney
If a person has TB in the larynx, lymph nodes, brain, kidney, what do they
have? - ✔✔Miliary TB
According to Centers for Disease Control - ✔✔TB is the number one cause
of death worldwide
Centers for Disease Control doesn't know.... - ✔✔-How long TB organisms
can remain suspended in the air
-How long TB organisms can remain infectious outside the body
-How many TB organisms are needed to cause an infection
Chain of Infection for TB - ✔✔Agent- TB
Reservoir- lungs and throat
Portal of Exit- nose and mouth
Mode of Transmission: airborne through talking, coughing, breathing,
laughing or singing
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