What protective equipment should be worn for secondary protection?

The standard of secondary protection is: medical protective clothing, medical protective masks, protective eye/masks, medical latex gloves, protective shoes, and work hats.

The second level of protection applies to:

1, medical personnel entering the isolation observation room and specialized wards.

2. Staff who come into contact with specimens collected from patients, handling their secretions, excretions, used articles and dead patients' bodies.

3. Medical personnel and drivers who transfer patients.

Expanded Information

Protection Standard System:

1. Gloves should be worn when coming into contact with substances such as blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and items contaminated by them.

2, wash hands immediately after removing gloves; (wearing gloves is not a substitute for washing hands).

3. Wash your hands as soon as you come into contact with blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and other substances and articles contaminated by them.

4. Special attention should be paid to the handling of all sharps to prevent stabbing, such as: prohibiting the use of disposable needles to re-cover the needle sleeve; prohibit direct contact with hands after use of needles, blades; must be used after the sharps into the sharps box.

5, medical personnel should wear disposable surgical masks or medical protective masks, protective glasses or face masks, and isolation gowns or aprons when their work clothes, faces and eyes are likely to be sprayed with blood, body fluids, secretions and other substances.

6, the patient with the medical equipment, utensils should be taken after the correct disinfection measures, non-infected patients used instruments using enzyme detergent soak and then wash. Infected patient-used instruments are first disinfected by physical or chemical methods, then routinely cleaned, and finally disinfected or sterilized.

7, environmental cleanliness: each department has daily cleaning standards and hygiene treatment procedures, based on thorough cleaning, appropriate disinfection of bed units, equipment and environmental surfaces, bed rails, door handles, wheelchairs and so on.

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