Thursday, November 29, 2012

INFECTION CONTROL


INFECTION CONTROL
Infection will occur if high standards of preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative rules are not observed in relation to the care of instruments and patients.
If there is any break of these rules by the surgical team infection in surgical patients will occur..
Mechanism
The occurrence of infection and cross-infection will rise, produc­ing anything from minor wound infections to a major disaster (tetanus) thus standing rules and procedures need to be defined by hospital Infection Control Committees (ICC) and observed by the surgical teams.
      The infection control committee, usually headed by a physician, infection control nurse, or nurse epidemiologist. Following the standards set by the ICC, it provides the hospital with an effective program with the following goals:
•     Investigate and identify source of the infection in each case. The source may be a person, a patient or an employee or may be the practice of one or more employees of poor aseptic technique, or a team member may be harboring a specific disease organism that is transmitted to the patients in his or her care.
•     To identify need for change in rule book to prevent a future outbreak
•           Provide effective isolation of infected patients.

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