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- Gloves – Use when
contact with the following is anticipated:
- Blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, or
contaminated items such as dressings
- Mucus membranes and non-intact skin or rashes
- Areas on the patient with heavy bacterial contamination:
e.g groin
- Work from “clean to dirty”
- Limit opportunities for “touch contamination”
- protect yourself, others, and the environment
- Don’t touch your face or adjust PPE with
contaminated gloves
- Don’t touch environmental surfaces except
as necessary during patient care
- Surgical mask plus goggles or
face shield – Use during patient care activities likely
to generate splashes or sprays of blood, body fluids, secretions,
or excretions
- Gowns – Use during
procedures and patient care activities when contact of clothing/ exposed
skin with blood/body fluids, secretions, or excretions is anticipated
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