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General Measures of Infection Control

Health-care-associated infections are a common cause of increased morbidity, mortality, and cost of care in ICUs. Infection control and judicious antibiotic use are the mainstay of management of these patients. A systematic and multidisciplinary approach to infection control practices goes a long wa...

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Autores principales: Myatra, Sheila Nainan, Thota, Raghu S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121722/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0535-7_48
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spelling pubmed-71217222020-04-06 General Measures of Infection Control Myatra, Sheila Nainan Thota, Raghu S. ICU Protocols Article Health-care-associated infections are a common cause of increased morbidity, mortality, and cost of care in ICUs. Infection control and judicious antibiotic use are the mainstay of management of these patients. A systematic and multidisciplinary approach to infection control practices goes a long way in minimizing this problem. 2012-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7121722/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0535-7_48 Text en © Springer India 2012 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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