Precautions for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

[gyuzeel]

Hello everyone, I am little bit confused about precautions of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

In La Charity book it says that is airborn prec, when I google it sometimes it is droplet... What is the correct precautions?

[STL2008, RN]

I thought it was airborne

[chillin4me]

internet sometimes gives wrong information. please check it with different books. like saunders, mosbys, or kaplan

[ann_08RN]

Hello everyone, I am little bit confused about precautions of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

In La Charity book it says that is airborn prec, when I google it sometimes it is droplet... What is the correct precautions?

in nclex 4000, it is droplet and contact precautions.

[ann_08RN]

SARS is actually spread in droplets that are shed from the respiratory secretions of infected persons.

[gyuzeel]

I found some info, please take a look

If a suspect SARS patient is admitted to the hospital, infection control personnel should be notified immediately. Infection control measures for inpatients should include:

• Standard precautions (e.g., hand hygiene); in addition to routine standard precautions, health care personnel should wear eye protection for all patient contact.
  
• Contact precautions (e.g., use of gown and gloves for contact with the patient or their environment)
  
• Airborne precautions (e.g., an isolation room with negative pressure relative to the surrounding area and use of an N-95 filtering disposable respirator for persons entering the room)
  

If airborne precautions cannot be fully implemented, patients should be placed in a private room, and all persons entering the room should wear N-95 respirators. Where possible, a qualitative fit test should be conducted for N-95 respirators; detailed information on fit testing can be accessed on the OSHA Web site. If N-95 respirators are not available for health care personnel, then surgical masks should be worn. Regardless of the availability of facilities for airborne precautions, standard and contact precautions should be implemented for all suspected SARS patients.

There is more about precautions:

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-science/infectious-diseases/topics-interest/emerging-infections/sars-infection-control-hospitals.shtml

[gyuzeel]

I already had a question on NCLEX about SARS precautions.... Want to clear for myself. Is that droplet and airborn together? or just airborn, alone? PLEASE HELP

[caliotter3]

Reread the info given in the previous post, it says airborne. I would go with that at this point.