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Infectious Disease Control and Precautions That Are Standard Based

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physicians (Strausbaugh, 1997). How are diseases for which there is no quick cure managed? Containment is perhaps the only thing that can be done to prevent epidemics until a patient  is no longer contagious. Precautions should be taken whenever any infectious disease presents itself, regardless of what type of disease. However, different diseases warrant different measures as detailed by the  CDC. Generally speaking, transmission-based precautions include airborne precautions, droplet precautions and contact precautions (Barrs, 2000). These guidelines are for patients with documented or suspected contagious pathogens and CDC guidelines  do list particular symptoms which indicate infection and suggest using Transmission-Based precautions (2000). Such precautions are temporarily implemented until a proper diagnosis is made (2000). It was in 1987  that the CDC recommended all hospitals implement infection control policies of universal precautions or UpS (Wong, Stotka & Chincilli et al., 1991). Under such a policy, health  care workers assume that the BBFs of all patients are infected and so should protect themselves with barrier devices if contact is anticipated (1991). While practical, such precautions are expensive  and a study estimates that these precautions costs facilities at least $336 million per year in the United States (1991). Such methods are theoretically viable, but there is actually no  evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of exposures that are sustained by health care workers (1991). The possibility however does exist that Ups may  actually increase certain types of exposures (1991). One example is that the use of gloves may interfere with tactile input and that is something that can increase the number of  casualties with sharp instruments that are used during procedures (1991). Additionally, if previous studies on compliance with infection control policies is true, health care workers should not adhere to suggested