What are the five basic principles for infection control?
Hand Hygiene. Hand hygiene is the most important measure to prevent the spread of infections among patients and DHCP.
What are the 3 infection control categories?
Cleaning, Disinfection, Sterilization. The field of infection prevention describes a hierarchy of removal of microorganisms from surfaces including medical equipment and instruments.
What is surveillance in infection control?
Infection surveillance data is used to measure success of infection prevention and control programs, to identify areas for improvement, and to meet public reporting mandates and pay for performance goals.
What are the prevention and control of nosocomial infection?
Nosocomial infections can be controlled by practicing infection control programs, keep check on antimicrobial use and its resistance, adopting antibiotic control policy. Efficient surveillance system can play its part at national and international level.
What are the 10 principles of infection prevention?
The 10 Standard Infection Control Precautions (SICP)
- Patient assessment for infection risk.
- Hand hygiene.
- Respiratory and cough hygiene.
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Safe management of equipment.
- Safe management of environment.
- Safe management of blood and body fluids.
- Safe management of linen.
What are Tier 2 precautions?
Transmission-Based Precautions are the second tier of basic infection control and are to be used in addition to Standard Precautions for patients who may be infected or colonized with certain infectious agents for which additional precautions are needed to prevent infection transmission.
What are the 4 types of isolation?
Four isolation categories are widely recognized –standard, contact, airborne, and droplet precautions.
What is the process of surveillance?
Process surveillance, the consistent and quanti- tative monitoring of practices that directly or indirectly contribute to a health outcome and the use of those data to improve outcomes, has begun to emerge as a valid and important measurement tool for health care organizations.
Why is it important to control the nosocomial infection?
Reducing the level of patient immunity; the increasing variety of medical techniques and invasive procedures creates potentially paths of infection, transmission of resistant to treatment bacteria, and poor infection control practices can promote infection among hospitalized patients.
What are universal precautions?
Universal precautions are a standard set of guidelines to prevent the transmission of bloodborne pathogens from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).
How do you control infection?
Infection Control Basics
- Disinfection and sterilization.
- Environmental infection control.
- Hand hygiene.
- Isolation precautions.
- Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO)
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)
- Intravascular catheter-related infection (BSI)
- Organ transplantation.