6.3 Limiting Hospital Acquired Infections
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- Limiting Hospital Acquired-Infections
- Hygiene measures
- Hand washing
- Guidelines for clothing
- Cleaning wards and toilets
- Patient isolation
- Alcohol-based gels/ phenol/ antiseptics/ disinfectants
- Screening new patients
- Preventing ill people visiting hospital
- Monitoring levels of health care acquired infections
- Evolutionary race
- Bacteria that evolve resistant to antibiotics.
- Bacteria randomly mutates and mutations selected and passed on leading to resistance.
- Bacteria that evolve resistant to antibiotics.
- May result in new biochemical pathways/enzyme production that destroys antibiotics - SUPERBUG
- Bacteria randomly mutates and mutations selected and passed on leading to resistance.
- Bacteria randomly mutates and mutations selected and passed on leading to resistance.
- Limiting the use of antibiotics/holding reserves reduces likelihood of resistance.
- Most likely to occur in hospital when antibiotic use is highest
- Use a bigger range and less antibiotics!
- Reduces the chances of resistance as the more antibiotics, the less likely to be resistant to all.
- Asepsis: absence of infection
- Aseptic techniques: aim to minimise infection
- Hygiene measures
- Hand washing
- Guidelines for clothing
- Cleaning wards and toilets
- Patient isolation
- Alcohol-based gels/ phenol/ antiseptics/ disinfectants
- Screening new patients
- Preventing ill people visiting hospital
- Monitoring levels of health care acquired infections
- Hygiene measures
- Hygiene measures
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