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    Infection Control and Prevention Booklet
    Infection Control and Prevention Booklet
    Infection Control and Prevention Booklet
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    Infection Control and Prevention Booklet

    By FOUED BEN ROMDHANE, MEJDA BOUAZZI, ALI BAYAHYA and AHMED AMR SABER

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    Infection Control and ‎Prevention Booklet for nurses and doctors
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 21, 2024
    ISBN9781326942243
    Infection Control and Prevention Booklet

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      Infection Control and Prevention Booklet - FOUED BEN ROMDHANE

      Introduction

      Without the proper precautions, your health care facility can cause the spread of infections and diseases. When providing health services, it is essential to prevent the transmission of infections at all times.

      With appropriate infection prevention practices, specially hand hygiene, you can:

      Prevent Health Care ‎Associated Infections, including surgical-site infections, catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), Ventilator associated Pneumonia (VAP), Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) …

      Prevent infection to you and your family

      Provide high-quality, safe services.

      Prevent infections in service providers and other staff.

      Protect the community from infections that originate in health care facilities.

      Standard precautions

      Standard Precautions are the minimum infection prevention practices that apply to all patient care, regardless of suspected or confirmed infection status of the patient, in any setting where health care is delivered. These practices are designed to both protect health care personnel and prevent health care personnel from spreading infections among patients. Standard Precautions include:

      Perform hand hygiene.

      Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, masks, eyewear) whenever there is an expectation of possible exposure to infectious material.

      Follow respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette principles.

      Ensure appropriate patient placement.

      Properly handle and properly clean and disinfect patient care equipment and instruments / devices. Clean and disinfect the environment appropriately.

      Handle textiles and Landry carefully.

      Sharps safety (engineering and work practice controls).

      Follow Safe injection practices (i.e., aseptic technique for parenteral medications).

      Wear surgical mask when performing lumber punctures.

      Sterile instruments and devices.

      Clean and disinfected environmental surfaces.

      When Standard Precautions alone cannot prevent transmission, they are supplemented with Transmission-Based Precautions. This second tier of infection prevention is used when patients have diseases that can spread through contact, droplet or airborne routes (e.g., skin contact, sneezing, coughing) and are always used in addition to Standard Precautions.

      Hand hygiene

      Hand hygiene is the most important measure to prevent the spread of infections among patients and health care personnel. Any health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in direct or indirect patient care needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly and at the right time.

      Clean your hands by rubbing them with an alcohol-based formulation, as the preferred mean for routine hygienic hand antisepsis if hands are not visibly soiled. It is faster, more effective, and better tolerated by your hands than washing with soap and water (Figure 1).

      Wash your hands with soap and water when hands are visibly dirty or visibly soiled with blood or other body fluids or after using the toilet (Figure 2).

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