Personal Respiratory Protection

• Personal respiratory protection should be used by:
  • persons entering rooms where patients with known or suspected airborne infectious disease are being isolated
  • persons entering rooms where patients with known or suspected infectious TB are being isolated,
  • persons present during cough-inducing or aerosol-generating procedures performed on such patients, and
  • persons in other settings where administrative and environmental controls are not likely to protect them from inhaling infectious airborne droplet nuclei.
    • These other settings should be identified on the basis of the facility's risk assessment.
    
    
• Masks and Respirators
  Surgical masks protect your nose and mouth from splattered of body fluids, respirators filter the air before you inhale it.