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Name: ______________________________Department/Institution:____________________________ Common Healthcare Associated Infections Contact hours – 0.75 Goals & Objectives Goal To increase the learner's basic knowledge of the cause, prevention and control of health care associated infections. Objectives • Differentiate between the terms ‘nosocomial infection’ and ‘healthcare associated infection’ (HAI). • Describe each of the following common heath care associated infections and related infection control measures. o Surgical wound infections (SSI) • wound classification • ASA score • cut point T • risk index o Pneumonia (refer infection control measures to that specific section) o Bacteremia (refer infection control measures to that specific section) o Urinary tract infections o Oral cavity infections • Identify the three most common nosocomial infections. • List common normal body defenses which when impaired may predispose a patient to development of a nosocomial infection. • Name the common procedures that can compromise a patient's normal defense against infection. • Locate the CDC guidelines for the prevention of nosocomial infections. Test 1. While nosocomial infections a. Primarily focus on infections that are recognized by the healthcare team from the time of admission to discharge; they could also include nosohusial infections. b. Is a dated term referring to hospital associated infections, the more popular term today is ‘health care associated infections’ which refers to infections that occur during the course of receiving care in today’s multifaceted health care systems. c. Typically do not include common community acquired infections such as measles, it is important to include this information in your annual report to the medical director of the surgery department. d. Are restricted to infections that are evident 48 hours or more after admission, healthcare associated infection include infections that have shorter incubation periods. - 12 -
Name: ______________________________Department/Institution:____________________________ 2. A scheduled laminectomy done on a healthy 34 year old female, mother of two young children and is currently breast feeding which took the surgeon 55 minutes to complete would be most likely be considered a a. Wound Class I and ASA Score 1 b. Wound Class I and a Cutpoint T of 2. c. ASA Score of 2 and Cutpoint T of 2 d. Risk Index Score of 2. 3. An example of a health care associated pneumonia using the CDC definitions is a. A health care worker seen in the employee health clinic during the influenza season with rapid onset fever, cough and body aches. b. A patient with a long standing history of COPD with a change in sputum characteristics to thick green tinges sputum with a sweet smell. c. A patient admitted for a scheduled coronary artery bypass procedure that developed persistent left lower lobe infiltrates, fever, cough, rales, increased production of thick creamy sputum and required prolonged oxygen therapy. d. A trauma patient admitted with multiple fractures, including the hip, who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome three days after admission. 4. A laboratory confirmed blood stream infection a. Includes all positive blood cultures. b. Includes positive vascular culture tip cultures obtained from the roll plate method c. Is a positive blood culture and the pathogen isolated is not related to an infection at another site d. Is a term limited to patients with a central line in the intensive care unit. 5. A health care associated urinary tract infection a. Is the most common infection according to CDC reports. b. Includes patients with a positive urinary antigen for legionella or Streptococcus pneumoniae following catheterization. c. Typically occurs following catheterization, a break in the first line of defense. d. A & C above. 6. The CDC guidelines for the prevention of health care associated infections a. Is one document located at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/guidelines.html b. Includes the documents for the prevention of surgical site infections, hand hygiene in health care settings and the guideline for isolation precautions. c. Are restricted to guidelines related to invasive procedures preformed in U.S. hospitals. d. Are updated annually by HICPAC. - 13 -
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