Chain of Infection | 10.75 CME

Course details

Health care-associated infections, are the most frequent adverse event in health-care delivery worldwide. Hundreds of millions of patients are affected by health care-associated infections worldwide each year, leading to significant mortality and financial losses for health systems. The leading cause of infection is the prolonged and inappropriate use of invasive devices and antibiotics, high-risk and sophisticated procedures, immuno-suppression and other severe underlying patient conditions; insufficient application of standard and isolation precautions.
As is the case for many other patient safety issues, health care-associated infections create additional suffering and come at a high cost for patients and their families. Infections prolong hospital stays, create long-term disability, and increase resistance to antimicrobials, represent a massive additional financial burden for health systems, Generate high costs for patients and their family, and cause unnecessary deaths.

Objectives:

• To explore factors contributing to infection
• To discuss the new challenges and how to role it
• To understand the chain of infection concepts and links
• To gain skills in which each link of the chain is managed
• To emphasis the importance of  essentials standard precautions
• To learn the scientific explanations of each protection methods
• To discover the best methods in the right situation
• To learn the importance of team work that should include all healthcare staff 

Courses will cover:

• The Impact of infection disease and an overview on Epidemic, pandemic infection, Emerging and re-emerging and superbug.
• chain of infection and the discussing each link separately
• Infection mode of transmission including direct and indirect transmission
• Standard precaution in all parts of the links and the best methods for control

Who should attend:
Infecting diseases specialist, Infection control teams, clinicians, nurses, microbiologist lab technicians, pharmacists and health and safety officers Updated on 20 October, 2019