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Self Isolation
In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient ( reverse isolation). Various forms of isolation exist, in some of which contact procedures are modified, and others in which the patient is kept away from all other people. In a system devised, and periodically revised, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), various levels of patient isolation comprise application of one or more formally described "precaution". Isolation is most commonly used when a patient is known to have a contagious ( transmissible from person-to-person) viral or bacterial illness. Special equipment is used in the management of patients in the various forms of isolation. These most commonly include items of personal protective equipment (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tb Ward
TB or Tb may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Terabyte (TB), a unit of information (often measuring storage capacity) * Terabit (Tb), a unit of information (often measuring data transfer) * Thunderbolt (interface) * Test bench Vehicles * T.B. (Thompson Brothers), a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by Thompson Brothers of Bilston, England, from 1919 until 1924 * Torpedo boat, a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle * A US Navy hull classification symbol: List of torpedo boats of the United States Navy, Torpedo boat (TB) Places in the United States * Boeing TB, an American torpedo bomber biplane designed by the US Navy and built by Boeing in 1927 Other uses in science and technology * Terbium, symbol Tb, a chemical element * Terrific broth, a bacterial Growth medium#Selective media, growth medium for ''E. coli'' * Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic infectious disease ** ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tubercle bacillus'', another name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
