Manual for TB control elaborated by “ Francis J. Curry” (CNTC) Center for TB Control
May 22nd, 2009
"Francis J. Curry" National Tuberculosis Centre (NTC), one of the four medical training centers set up by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) - in collaboration with Public Health Department of California University from San Francisco - provides specialists and other decision makers in TB prevention and control a Practical Manual for Preventing TB.
The manual is firstly aimed for local and regional TB control program managers, people with management positions in private and public health systems, private and public health services' medical staff, emergency hospital departments and also the homeless shelters.This guideline's successful recommendations and interventions are also available for the social assistants, nurses and sanitary mediators, but also for the staff of the sanitary inspection and epidemiology services and departments.
The purpose of this manual is to provide up to date and detailed information on TB prevention for the staff of hospitals, clinics, shelters and other institutions as such. The information presented are an interest for both TB control and reducing the TB infection risk, but also reducing the risk of exposure to this infection:
- The TB exposure control plan (for medical institutions);
- Ensuring the phlegm collection under safe conditions;
- Isolation rooms: necessary design, assessment, endowments;
- Practical guideline for establishing the efficient conduct: TB people's identification in the emergency departments;
- TB in the homeless centers: reducing the risk through ventilation, filters and UV waves.
The authors hope that the manual would generate:a better understanding of the way TB is spread, of the ways the ventilation, filters' usage and UV waves can reduce the infection risk a better understanding of the minimum necessary conditions for each type of medical service; essential elements of the phlegm collection under safe conditions program, technical norms of projection for the isolation rooms aimed for air transmissible diseases, etc.
During 2001, NTC published a new a model of controlling the tuberculosis infection in penitentiaries, also aimed to improve TB control.
For more information on TB prevention and control can be obtained from Tuberculosis Control Manual!
