90949 - Seminario di Igiene

Course contents

course contents is related to Basic concepts of preventing transmission of infectious agents in health care settings

1) Chain of infections : definition of source of infectionsSusceptible hosts, modes of trasmission  and related  opportunities to break the chain

 Healthcare Associated Infections : definition , epidemioloical data. Standard and Transmission based Precautions in Health care settings, deepening Hand Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette

2)Infectious agents of special infection control interest for health care settings : Cl Difficile and MDRO's. Surveillance tools for case findings of single patients or cluster of patients infected or colonized with epidemiologially important organisms

Open discussion about a Literature Case

3) Environmental infection control measures

4) Cleaning and  Disinfections strategies for Medical Equipment and devices

 

Readings/Bibliography

• Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Healtc care settings , CDC 2203
  
• Guidelines for Isolation Precautions: preventing transmision of Infectious agents in helth care settings , CDC 2007
  
• J.D.Siegel Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Healthcare settings , CDC 2006
• WHO, “WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. First Global Patient Safety Challenge. Clean Care is Safety Care”, 2009
• IFIC Manual on Basic Concepts of Infection Controls 2012 Italian Edition
• Surveillance report 2016 - Survelliance report of antimicrobial resistance in Europe - www.ecdc.europa.eu
• ECDC country visit to Italy to discuss amtomicrobila resistance issues 2017 - www.ecdc.europa.eu

Teaching methods

Classrooms lessons

lieteraure cases open discussions

Assessment methods

Mulitple choice written final test

Teaching tools

Slides

disseminations of literature articles

Office hours

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