Infection Prevention and Control
A guide for healthcare workers in low-resource settings
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- About the book
- About the author and editors
- Reviews
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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1 Role and structure of infection prevention and control programmes
- Objectives
- Introduction to infection prevention and control programmes
- Structure and function of infection prevention and control programmes
- Education of healthcare workers
- Audits in infection prevention and control
- Policy development in infection prevention and control
- Report writing in infection prevention and control
- Occupational health and safety programmes
- Case studies
- 2 Micro-organisms of relevance to infection prevention and control
- 3 Risk management in IPC
- 4 Hand hygiene
- 5 Infection prevention and control considerations for healthcare facility design
- 6 Environmental cleaning, waste management and decontamination of medical devices
- 7 Surveillance and outbreak investigation in low-resource settings
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8 Tuberculosis infection prevention and control
- Objectives
- Tuberculosis in low-resource settings
- Tuberculosis transmission
- Diagnosis of tuberculosis
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Global tuberculosis control
- Tuberculosis infection prevention and control (TB-IPC)
- Administrative control measures
- Environmental control measures
- Respiratory protection control measures
- Healthcare worker adherence to tuberculosis control measures
- Occupational health services for tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis prevention in the community
- Case studies
- 9 Antimicrobial stewardship
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10 COVID-19
- Objectives
- Introduction to COVID-19
- How to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- Clinical features of COVID-19
- Management of people with suspected coronavirus infection
- Management of patients with mild COVID-19
- Management of patients with moderate or severe COVID-19
- Protecting healthcare workers
- Vaccines against COVID-19
- Case studies
- Addendum: Resources for infection prevention and control
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