Abstract: Comprehensive and effective occupational protection can reduce the occupational exposure risk of medical staff during mechanical ventilation treatment for patients with respiratory infectious diseases. Based on the review of relevant domestic and foreign literature and the work experience of hospital infection prevention and control, this study summarized three occupational exposure protection suggestions in terms of scientific management of the ward environment, strict protection of the entire process of mechanical ventilation treatment for critically ill patients, and optimization of human resource management, with a view to standardizing the medical behaviors of medical staff when providing mechanical ventilation treatment services for severely ill patients with respiratory infectious diseases, strengthening the protection awareness of medical staff, and improving the level of medical protection.

Key words: respiratory tract infectious diseases; critically ill patients; mechanical ventilation therapy; occupational exposure; risk management