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isolation room Nursing A Pt room designed to minimize the spread of droplet nuclei expelled by Pt with TB and other contagious pathogens; IRs require negative-pressure ventilation. See Precautions, Universal precautions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We're building an isolation room so we can separate the intakes until we know about any illnesses they might have," Barnes says. But as we haven't received results from the laboratory they remain in the isolation room," he said. When XDR TB was confirmed (in vitro resistance to at least isoniazid, rifampin, a fluoroquinolone, and an injectable agent [7]), he was admitted to the hospital for drug-resistant TB patients in Lesotho and placed in a negative-pressure, single isolation room. |
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