A technician receives a tray from a patient with no known infection and no isolation precautions. What principle of standard precautions applies?

Giải thích

Standard precautions assume that infectious status is often unknown at the time of contact, so the same protective practices apply to every patient and every contaminated item. This is why all instruments arriving in decontamination are handled as if infectious, whatever the source. Restricting precautions to known infections, isolation cases, or sharps leaves the largest share of undiagnosed exposures unprotected.