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Microbiology · Chapter 11

Precautions & the Right PPE

Standard precautions protect you from every patient, always. When a microbe spreads a particular way, you add a transmission-based tier on top. Pick an organism, choose the tier yourself, then dress the figure. The panel tells you piece by piece whether you are covered.

Standard precautionsgear appears as you tick it

The care worker, dressed in the PPE you chose
Choose a tier, then tick the gear you would put on.

Are you covered?live feedback

Pick an organismthe organism sets the tier
The patient is known to carry
Which tier do you add on top of standard?
Hand hygiene

Put the gear ontap to don and doff