Infection Prevention for the Emergency Department: Out of Reach or Standard of Care?

The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care–associated infections (catheter-ass...

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Autores principales: Liang, Stephen Y., Riethman, Madison, Fox, Josephine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30297010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2018.06.013
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description The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care–associated infections (catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line–associated bloodstream infection) are key priorities in ED infection prevention. Effective and sustainable infection prevention strategies tailored to the ED are necessary and achievable. Emergency clinicians can and already play an invaluable role in infection prevention.
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spelling pubmed-62034422019-11-01 Infection Prevention for the Emergency Department: Out of Reach or Standard of Care? Liang, Stephen Y. Riethman, Madison Fox, Josephine Emerg Med Clin North Am Article The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care–associated infections (catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line–associated bloodstream infection) are key priorities in ED infection prevention. Effective and sustainable infection prevention strategies tailored to the ED are necessary and achievable. Emergency clinicians can and already play an invaluable role in infection prevention. Elsevier Inc. 2018-11 2018-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6203442/ /pubmed/30297010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2018.06.013 Text en © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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