{"id":1127,"date":"2013-10-10T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobimed.org\/NS\/?page_id=1127"},"modified":"2013-10-10T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T18:41:24","slug":"case-10-answer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/ambulatory\/mlove\/curriculumprevention\/tuberculosis-screening\/ppd-answers\/case-10-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Case 10 answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This scenario is a hospital&#8217;s nightmare!<span><br \/>\n<\/span>The index patient had active disease and was not in isolation because it<br \/>\nwas not clearly suspected because he had another diagnosis.<span><br \/>\n<\/span>Therefore, all patients (roommates) and staff (nursing and physicians)<br \/>\nwho were in close proximity to the patient are risk for exposure.<span><br \/>\n<\/span>These patients and staff should be recalled and tested with PPD, which<br \/>\nshould be repeated again after three months.<span><br \/>\n<\/span>Prophylaxis should be offered if the PPD is <span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">\u00b3<\/span><br \/>\n10 mm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Documents%20and%20Settings\/LauraKoo\/Desktop\/ambulatory_backup\/mlove\/module%20completion%20form.1.htm\">FINISHED!<br \/>\nClick here to certify completion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This scenario is a hospital&#8217;s nightmare! The index patient had active disease and was not in isolation because it was not clearly suspected because he had another diagnosis. Therefore, all patients (roommates) and staff (nursing and physicians) who were in close proximity to the patient are risk for exposure. These patients and staff should&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions\/1131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobimed.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}