Personal Protective Equipment
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Introduction
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used to protect health care providers and visitors for contracting and/or transmitting infectious diseases.
Types of PPE
There are a number of different levels of PPE, depending on the risk:
- contact precautions
- droplet precautions
- airborne precautions
contact precautions
indications
equipment required
important notes
droplet precautions
indications
equipment required
important notes
Airborne Precautions
indications
- tuberculosis
- measles
- varicella (plus contact if shingles present)
equipment required
important notes
Removal of PPE
If gloves, gown, mask, and eye protection is all worn remove:
- gloves
- gown
- perform hand hygiene
- eye protection
- mask
- perform hand hygiene
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