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- Standard Precautions: Hand Hygiene, Gloves
- Transmission Based Precautions: Contact, Droplet & Airborne
- Contact Precautions: MRSA, C. Difficile, Scabies
- Droplet Precautions: Mumps, Rubella, N. Meningitis
- Airborne Precautions: Chicken Pox, Measles, TB
- An idea about notifiable diseases is essential
- Meningitis Chemoprophylaxis in Neisseria:
- Close contacts in the same household in the last 7 days
- Kissing Contacts
- Person managing patients airway
- Personnel whose mouth/nose got splattered with large particle
droplets/secretions - Ciprofloxacin 500 mg SD PO or Rifampicin 600 mg PO BID for 2 days or
- Azithromycin 500 mg PO SD (Pregnant/Breast Feeding) or Ceftriaxone IM SD
- More: Meningitis
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