Infection Control Resources

• Swine Flue Information Page- MOH& FW India
• Swine Flu Clinical management Protocol and Infection Control Guidelines: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare-India
• Standard Precautions for Infection Control
• Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection Control Guidelines from California department of Health
• Clarification on the use of masks by health-care workers in pandemic settings - in WHO global influenza preparedness plan
• Aide-Memoire -Infection control recommendations for avian influenza in health-care facilities
• Hospital Infection Control Society of India 

WHO on Infection Control

• Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 guidance documents
• Global Alert and Response Publications 
• Global Patient Safety Challenge
• Patient safety 
• Infection prevention and control in health care
• Injection safety 
• Infection control (Western Pacific Region) 
• Hand hygiene promotional video
• Global priorities for patient safety research

CDC Guidelines & Other Articles

• Infection Control Home
• Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
• Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organism 2006
• Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, 2003
• Environmental Infection Control in Healthcare Facilities, 2003
• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings, 2002
• Prevention of Intravascular Device-Related Infections, 2002
• Prevention of Surgical Site Infections, 1999
• Prevention of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections, 1981
• Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis - 2001
• Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel - 1998
• CDC Guidelines for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Pneumonia
• CDC Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003 
• CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings June, 2007
• he Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals and the Benefits of Prevention 2009 
• Questions and Answers about Healthcare-Associated Infections from CDC
• Template for State Healthcare Associated Infections Plans

Free CE articles from Infection Control Resource (Published quarterly by Saxe Healthcare Communications)

• Persistence of microorganisms on common hospital surfaces:Strategies to control their dissemination, Misuse of prefilled flush syringes and Implications for medication errors and contamination
• Community-based sharps disposal programs, and  Preventing needlestick injuries in blood collection
• Flushing vascular access catheters and Risks for infection transmission
• Phlebotomy: Must it be a high-risk procedure? and Sharps containers: to reuse or not to reuse—that is the question.
  
• Active and Passive Technology in Sharps Safety and Managing Medical Waste
  
• Transmission of Infection with Multi-Dose Vials and Medication Errors
• Implementation of Needlestick Safety & Prevention Act in Long-Term care (renewal)and Intensive Care: Sharps injury in the ICU
• Adverse reactions to latex in urology and Encrustation on indwelling urinary catheters
• Engineering out the risk of Infection and Silver as a Healthcare Antisepsis
• Management of infection in patients with moderate to severe burns and Infection Control in the ICU
• Points of Contention in Sharps Injury Prevention and Sharps Management in the ER
• Prevention and treatment of surgical site infections and Managing tubes and drains: Considerations for IC
• Phlebotomy: A necessary high-risk procedure and Safer sharps in the OR
• A decade of needlestick prevention and Needlestick prevention in patients with diabetes mellitus
• Failure to Thrive in Wounds
• Implementing a sharps-injury prevention program and Needlesticks and other sharp-object injury prevention

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