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Droplet precautions require patients in private rooms or cohorted with matching infections. Healthcare workers wear surgical masks within three to six feet of the patient, and patients wear masks during transport to prevent droplet spread.
Droplet precautions require patients in private rooms or cohorted with matching infections. Healthcare workers wear surgical masks within three to six feet of the patient, and patients wear masks during transport to prevent droplet spread.
Key measures for droplet precautions here that you've got to know for your exams. The patient should be in a private room or a cohort. So they should ideally be in a private room, but if that's not available, they can be cohorted with other patients who have the same active infection that they do. And then a mask. Healthcare workers should wear a surgical mask when entering the patient's room or working up within between three to six feet of the patient, because that's how far those droplets can travel. And then a patient mask. If transport is necessary for the patient, the patient should wear a surgical mask.
