What is HAI ?
It is also known as ?
Hospital Acquired Infection
Nosocomial Infection and Health Care Associated Infection
Define HAI
Those infection which were not present in a person at the time of admission to a hospital but are acquired during a stay in a hospital are considered as hospital acquired infection.
Define surveillance
It is the act to monitor spread of infection rate is essential to identify problems and evaluate control activities.
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What is comprehensive surveillance ?
CS involve continuous monitoring of all patients as per all event and process
Tell me the general information to know regarding HAI
All hospitalized patients infection affects 5 - 15%
Patient in ICU affects 40%
WHO estimate mortality from HAI ranges from 12 - 80%
What is active surveillance ?
Health worker actively goes to house every fortnight to detected cases & collect data
What is passive surveillance ?
Data is itself reported to health system passively
What is laboratory based surveillance ?
Monitoring infectious disease by collecting data from laboratory.
What is patient based surveillance ?
Is a method to collect the data from each patient to detect disease
Enlist most common types of NCI
UTI
SSI
VAP
CLABSI
Enlist role of nursing staff in infection control
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What is prospective surveillance ?
Monitor patients during hospitalization
What is retrospective surveillance ?
Identify infection via chart review when the patient has been discharged
What is priority directed surveillance ?
Also k/a targeted or focused s. is a type of surv. that focus on specific event, process, organism or population
What are the objectives of surveillance ?
Evaluate & monitoring infection control measures.
Reduce infection rate
Monitor antimicrobial susceptibility pattern
Establish endemic baseline rateIdentify & detect the spread of disease
Explain terms:- Endemic, Pandemic & Epidemic
Endemic:- A disease that is regularly found among a particular population or region. For example, malaria
Pandemic:- An epidemic spreads across countries, affecting a large number of people globally. Eg:- COVID-19
Epidemic:-sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population or area. For example, an influenza
Enlist types of surveillance
Active or passive
Lab based & patient based
Prospective & retrospective
Priority directed & cpmprehensive
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Discuss Infection control committee
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Bundle approach for UTI
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Bundle approach for SSI
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Bundle approach for VAP
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Insertion Bundle approach for CLABSI
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Maintenance Bundle approach for CLABSI
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