Urinalysis and Body Fluids 6th Edition by Majorie DiLorenzo, Susan Strasinger

Exercise 9

The current routine infection control policy developed by CDC and followed in all health-care settings is:

A. Universal Precautions

B. Isolation Precautions

C. Blood and Body Fluid Precautions

D. Standard Precautions

Step 1 of 2

United States centers for disease control and prevention:

• The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) composed guidelines and regulation policy to prevent the disease and to prevent the attack of disease.

CDC:

• Healthcare infection control practices advisory committee.

• HICPAC (Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee) and CDC combined the BIS (Body substance isolation) and UP (Universal precautions) guidelines (features) in 1996.

Standard precautions:

• Standard precautions are the new guidelines provided by CDC which have the combined features of UP and BIS. They are followed in all healthcare institutions currently.

• Standard precaution include

o Hygiene of hand

o Gloves

o Eye, nose, mouth protection

o Wearing gown

o Patient care equipment

o Environmental control

Therefore, the “standard precautions” are the current routine infection control policy developed by CDC. Hence, the correct answer is option.