Help with RSV and SARS precautions

[jorgecardenas55]

Is RSV contact as I read in th pneumonics or is it Droplet? I am confused . Also I read that SARS is airborne and contact ?

[nurse671]

RSV is contact precaution according g to Saunders. SARS I remember is airborne not too sure if it is contact too.

[nurse671]

Ops. According to Saunders SARS infection is spread by close person-to-person contact by direct contact with infections material. (respiratory secretions or contact with persons or objects infected with infectious droplets)

[SugarSugar15]

So SARS is Airborne AND Contact. Gloves, gown, mask.

RSV I understood it to be contact. If you go on to the CDC.gov website and search infection precautions you will get a nice list there..

[carygt3]

RSV

CDC says RSV is droplet...

• Respiratory viruses (e.g., influenza, parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus)
  

CDC also states it can be transmitted via indirect contact (thus contact precautions)

CDC -Transmission-Based Precautions BICPP - HICPAC

CDC - RSV: Transmission and Prevention

& Kaplan course book just says contact...

SARS

Per CDC: Contact and AII (airborne infection isolations) Precautions, in addition to Standard Precautions, should be applied when caring for patients with known or possible SARS-CoV disease.

http://www.cdc.gov/sars/guidance/I-infection/healthcare.html#3

They also mentioned something about droplet...but if you have airborne precautions you're covered with the droplets.

[nurse671]

RSV is droplet?? :/ I would go with whatever CDC says I guess.

[nurse_232]

RSV is a real freaking pain in the butt!! ATI, in their NCLEX review book, says that RSV is contact, droplet, airborne. I give up. Yes, I know im reviving an oold thread.