Nosocomial Transmission (TB)

Personal Respirators May Not Be Needed in Well Ventilated Rooms

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 23rd, 1998

A report from Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center finds that personal respirators may not be necessary when attending tuberculosis patients in well-ventilated isolation rooms.

"There is probably minimal benefit to the use of respirators in well-ventilated isolation rooms with patients receiving appropriate therapy," K.P. Fennelly and colleagues wrote ("The Relative Efficacy of Respirators and Room Ventilation in Preventing Occupational Tuberculosis," Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, October 1998;19(10):758-759).

In this study Fennelly et al. evaluated the efficacy of personal respiratory protection as the concentrations...

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