PNEUMONIA - standard or droplet???

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This one also trips me up... i've gotten infection control questions that tell me Haemophilus influenza pneumonia and streptococcal pneumonia are standard precautions, but my Saunders book says that pneumonia is droplet. Can anybody help me clear this up? Thanks!!

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Specializes in lots of specialties.

do you have a Saunder's book?If you have a 4th edition then check page 191-192.

It REALLY helped me on my boards.

Pneumonia is listed in droplet, along with sepsis,pertussis,flu,pharyngeal diphtheria,mumps,parovirus B19, streptococcal pharyngitis,meningococcal pneumonia or mycoplasmal pneumonia,eppiglottitis

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Yep, droplet per the CDC!! :) Good stuff! :)

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thank you!! i'm just trying to get it all straightened out because like I said i've had questions about pneumonia and i put droplet as the answer, but it turned out to be standard. kinda weird, huh?

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Specializes in lots of specialties.

what book was that?

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Specializes in GU/surgical, Bariatrics, Endoscopy.

Droplet, definitely. In the NCLEX hospital mostly every resp disorder is droplet.

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do you have a Saunder's book?If you have a 4th edition then check page 191-192.

It REALLY helped me on my boards.

Pneumonia is listed in droplet, along with sepsis,pertussis,flu,pharyngeal diphtheria,mumps,parovirus B19, streptococcal pharyngitis,meningococcal pneumonia or mycoplasmal pneumonia,eppiglottitis

I bookmarked this pages thanks:)

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Specializes in Rehab/Post Acute.

Droplet

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It is strange but I always believed that one can not contract pneumonia from another person because pneumonia is a complication of an respiratory infection.

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thanks!! does it depend if its pneumococcal, or strep pneumonia?.. or just in general?? I had a question on Kaplan that told me it was standard.

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