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medidas tomadas en las unidades de atención para prevenir que las enfermedades contagiosas se propaguen entre pacientes, trabajadores de la salud y visitantes
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Join the roomEn las instalaciones de atención médica, el aislamiento representa una de varias medidas que se pueden tomar para implementar en el control de infecciones: la prevención de que las enfermedades transmisibles se transmitan de un paciente a otros pacientes, trabajadores de la salud y visitantes, o de personas externas a un paciente en particular. Existen varias formas de aislamiento, en algunas de las cuales se modifican los procedimientos de contacto, y en otras en las que el paciente se mantiene alejado de todas las demás personas. En un sistema ideado y revisado periódicamente por la U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), varios niveles de aislamiento de pacientes comprenden la aplicación de una o más «precauciones» formalmente descritas.
“Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.”
“Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
“Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.”
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.”
“Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.”
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
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