What is the use of universal precaution?

Answer 1

Universal precautions are applied whenever a health care provider treats a patient. They are used to protect the health care provider from diseases, particularly blood-borne diseases, that the patient may have - perhaps without knowing it.

universal precautions include wearing clean uniforms daily, wearing clean gloves and aprons at least for each person if not for each task, following all policies and procedures in place where you work ,appropriate footwear, goggles to protect eyes from specimen collections, chemical spills, masks to prevent breathing in harmful pathogens, gases,chemicals. following rules and regulations in regard to food hygiene, and the storage of waste.

they are not just to protect a health care provider but the patients in their care

and anyone else who visits. Also anyone else who works or comes into contact with these types of conditions in the workplace e.g. car mechanic , gardener

Answer 2

These are safety measures that everyone (mostly medical practitioners; but think: pedestrian trying to stop a stranger from bleeding out after a car crash) should employ around certain individuals.

Assume that the patient is the potential carrier of something; do not touch any bodily fluids (these are vectors of transmission, for the common cold to HIV virus) and protect yourself with proper equipment, such as gloves, masks, and so on.

From Wikipedia:

Universal precautions refers to the practice, in medicine, of avoiding contact with patients' bodily fluids, by means of the wearing of nonporous articles such as medical gloves, goggles, and face shields. The practice was introduced in 1985-88. In 1987, the practice of universal precautions was adjusted by a set of rules known as body substance isolation. In 1996, both practices were replaced by the latest approach known as standard precautions (health care).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_precautions

Answer 3

to avoid or prevent spreading of diseases To avoid or prevent spreading contamination like blood spill, body fluids and other to make a body contact.

Answer 4

The practice of universal precautions includes the use of nonporous articles such as goggles and gloves when coming into contact with bodily fluids.

Answer 5

Possible the greatest precaution to be taken is hygiene.