Contact Precautions

Introduction
Diseases Requiring Contact Precautions
Specifications
Initiation
Documentation
Patient Transport
Visitor Instructions
Waste Removal
Discontinuation of Contact Precaution
Modifications to Contact Precautions
IC Policies

MRSA
VRE
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Contact Precautions Disease List
In addition to Standard Precautions, Contact Precautions must be used for patients known or suspected to have specific diseases/multidrug- resistant organisms easily transmitted by direct patient contact or contact with items in the patient's environment. Examples of such illnesses/organisms include:
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Any organism deemed to be of special clinical and epidemiologic significance judged by YNHH Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control
Clostridium difficile colitis
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
Parainfluenza virus
Enteroviral infections in infants and young children
Pediculosis
Scabies
Escherichia coli 0157:H7, Salmonella, Shigella, Hepatitis A, Rotavirus-in diapered or incontinent patients
Diptheria (cutaneous)
Herpes Simplex virus
(neonatal, disseminated, or severe mucocutaneous)
Impetigo
Major (uncontained) abcesses or decubiti
Varicella (chickenpox), Herpes, Zoster (disseminated or in the immunocompromised host) also requires Airborne Precautions
Viral/ Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis
Viral Hemmorrhagic Fevers
(e.g., Ebola, Lassa, or Marburg)

Refer to Disease List for detailed information for each disease and the necessary isolation requirements.

Last modified: December 20, 2000.



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