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Isolation & Quarantine

Isolation & Quarantine. Alice Cho. Isolation?. refers to the separation of persons who have a specific infectious illness from those who are healthy their movements are restricted in order to stop the spread of an illness Isolation procedures are used with patients with CONFIRMED illnesses.

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Isolation & Quarantine

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  1. Isolation & Quarantine Alice Cho

  2. Isolation? • refers to the separation of persons who have a specific infectious illness from those who are healthy • their movements are restricted in order to stop the spread of an illness • Isolation procedures are used with patients with CONFIRMED illnesses

  3. Isolation?(contd) • Isolation lasts for the period of communicability of the illness, which varies by disease and the availability of specific treatment • In most cases, isolation is voluntary; however, federal, state and local governments have the authority to require isolation of sick people to protect the public

  4. Isolation and Small Pox - During the Civil War, Small Pox was present to a considerable extent • 12,236 cases and 4,717 deaths were reported • From January to April 1864, sporadic cases occurred in all commands • Isolation and vaccination were recognized as efficient means of protection

  5. Isolation and TB • Tuberculosis isolation is used for patients known or suspected to be excreting tubercle bacilli in sputum • A private room with the door closed is required • People who enter the room must wear a respirator-type mask

  6. Quarantine? • applies to those who have been exposed to a contagious disease but who may or may not become ill • Modern quarantine lasts only as long as necessary to protect the public by (1) providing public health care (such as immunization or drug treatment, as required) and (2) ensuring that quarantined persons do not infect others if they have been exposed to a contagious disease.

  7. AHH! I’M TRAPPED! Duration of Quarantine - A few hours • Passengers on airplanes, trains or boats believed to be infected with or exposed to a dangerous contagious disease might be delayed • Enough time to provide preventive treatment • or other intervention. • - For the duration of the incubation period

  8. Quarantine and Yellow Fever There was little or no yellow fever among the troops, a result attributed to active measures of sanitation and the strict quarantine regulations imposed by military government at all of the main ports in the South.

  9. Typhoid Mary • Healthy carrier of typhoid fever • When she was a cook, she infected 47 people. • She had to be quarantined. :[

  10. Mary Mallon seemed a healthy woman when a health inspector knocked on her door in 1907, yet she was the cause of several typhoid outbreaks.

  11. References • http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/SARS/isolationquarantine.htm • http://www.answers.com/topic/isolation?cat=health • http://www.redcross.org/preparedness/cdc_english/IsoQuar.asp • http://www.answers.com/topic/communicable-diseases-isolation-and-quarantine • http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/misc/evprev/ch6.htm • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/mary.html

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