Prevention And Control Of Infections In Hospitals: Practice And Theory

Description

This volume offers extensive information on preventive and infection surveillance procedures, routines and policies adapted to the optimal infection control level needed to tackle today’s microbes in hospital practice. It especially focuses on preventive measures for serious hospital infections. Each chapter includes a practical section that addresses the main aspects of procedures and treatment, and a theoretical section that contains updated documentation that can be used for further study, or to help select infection control measures.

Infection control concerns all healthcare professional working directly or indirectly with patients; in diagnosis, treatment, isolation measures, operations, equipment, drugs, cleaning, textiles, transport, porter service, food and water, building and maintenance, etc.

Hygiene and environmental control is central to infection prevention for patients, visitors and staff alike. Good hygienic practices, individual infection control, well implemented and frequent environmental cleaning, and a high professional standard of hygiene in the treatment and care of patients, are essential to patient safety and a safe working environment. Addressing this essential topic, this book is intended for doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, students in health-related subjects, hospital managers and health bureaucrats, as well as patients and their families.

Table of Contents

1. Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI), registering and prevalence
2. Microbes and ways of transmission
3. Antimicrobials and resistance*
4. Tracing and prevention of infections
5. Prevention of infections in Healthcare workers (HCW)o Use of uniformo Vaccination and Controlo HCW with infections/carrier state.o Pregnant HCW’s o Tuberculosiso Exposure to blood/tissue by accident (HIV, Hepatitis etc)*
6. Hand hygiene and the use of gloves
7. Protection of Airways
8. Isolation to protect against microbial transmissiono General informationo Contact isolationo Protection against transmission of bloodborne agentso Airborne infections- isolation High-risk, strict isolationo Protective isolation
9. Care of patients; patient hygiene, mouth hygiene, treatment of wounds etc .
10. Protection against airborne infections; ventilator equipment’s: use, cleaning and disinfection; ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) etc.
11. Prevention of postoperative wound infections
12. Surgical hand disinfection
13. Operation department- prevention of infections.
14. Treatment of operation wounds and drains
15. dialysis
16. Hemodialysis
17. Catheter-associated, bloodborne infections
18. Prevention of urinary tract infections
19. Protection of premature and newborne against infections
20. Intensive patient treatment – prevention of infections
21. Cystic fibrosis – infections and preventive measures
22. Important patient information before admission
23. Import infections, unknown infection – preventive measures
24. HCW exposed for infections
25. Preventing transmission in healthcare institutions ofo MRSA – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureuso VRE – vancomycin-resistant enterococcio Multiple resistant Gramnegative rodso Gastrointestinal infectionso Clostridium difficileo Noro virus and other intestinal pathogenic viruso Prion diseaseo Tuberculosiso Scabies
26. Disinfection of instruments and equipment
27. Disinfection of endoscopes and other special equipment
28. Sterilization
29. Medicine room; hygiene and infection control
30. of patient rooms and departments
31. Disinfection of rooms and areas
32. Textiles; wash, control, transport and store
33. Patient beds; wash, control, transport and store
34. Human-biological waste; treatment, storing cleaning, control
35. Ambulances in acute medicine and other transport of patients
36. Food and other nourishment; service, dishwashing and control of hygiene
37. Water and water systems in hospitals
38. Technical and medical-technical equipment – infection control
39. Laboratory medicine – infection control
40. Building, arrange and establish on wards/departments:o Kitchen on wardso Disinfection roomo Hospital departments/new hospitals
41. Intern hygiene control – check list
42. Dangerous microbes – preparedness in hospitalso Leadership/-groupo Scenerieso Capacity; isolates, equipment, HCW,  specialists, use of PPE etco Communication, triage, patient logistico VHF- viral hemorrhagic fever and other serious illnesseso Preparedness for biological weaponso Dangerous infection combined with dangerous chemicals
43. Resources for infection control work in hospitals

Author Biography

Bjorg Marit Andersen is Doctor in Medicine, Specialist in Medical Microbiology, Professor in Infection Control and Hygiene, and former head of Department of Hospital Infections, Oslo University Hospital – Ulleval, with regional infection control responsibilities for Health Region East, and later the South-Eastern part of Norway. She is a lecturer in infection control, hygiene and medical microbiology for healthcare personnel at several universities and high schools in Norway. She has also been a lecturer in infectious diseases at Ulleval University Hospital, head of microbiological department at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromso and special adviser in communicable disease control for Army Medical.

Bjorg Marit Andersen was a guest researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CDC, in Atlanta, USA, and has also studied infection control at hospitals in the US by the Minnesota Department of Health. For several years she has been a member of SHEA Guidelines Committee working with supervisors regarding infection control.

She has more than 350 publications within the field of medical microbiology/infectious diseases/hospital infection control, including more than 100 original works. In addition, she wrote several review articles, abstracts, books, and Handbooks in: Medical microbiology (last one in 2014), Infection control in LTCF (last one in 2013), and Infection Control in Hospitals (Norwegian edition in 2016).

Bjorg Marit Andersen received the Norwegian Medical Society’ quality price in 2001.