TEXT VERSION:
Title: TB and Respiratory Protection (Continued)
Type: Text Slide
Content:
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Employees must wear NIOSH certified respirators in the following circumstances:
- When workers enter rooms housing individuals with suspected or confirmed TB
disease;
- When workers perform high hazard procedures on persons who have suspected or
confirmed TB disease; and
- When emergency response employees or others must transport in a closed
vehicle, and individual with suspected or confirmed TB disease.
Speaker Notes: High hazard procedures: characterized by potential to
generate airborne secretions; aerosolized medication treatment; bronchoscopy;
sputum induction; endotracheal intubation and suctioning; and autopsies
conducted in hospitals.
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