airborne precautions

airborne precautions
a group of transmission-based precautions used when caring for patients who have diseases that spread through the air, such as tuberculosis, chickenpox, and measles. The patient should be in a private room. Called also respiratory precautions.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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