Infection prevention and control
Standard and transmission-based precautions, personal protective equipment, sterile technique and prevention bundles.
9 pages
Fundamental
- Clean and sterile technique: medical and surgical asepsisClean technique reduces microorganisms; sterile technique removes them completely and is used…
- Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of equipmentEach item is processed by the risk of its use: items entering sterile tissue are sterilized…
Safe practice
- Healthcare waste: segregation and colour codes in ColombiaIn Colombia, biological-risk waste goes in red containers and bags; sharps in the sharps…
- Preventing healthcare-associated infections: the care bundlesSmall sets of evidence-based measures that, applied together in every patient, prevent…
- Sharps safety and what to do after a needlestickHow to avoid injuries from needles and other sharps, and what to do straight away after a blood…
- Standard precautionsThe basic measures used with every patient, every time, to avoid spreading microorganisms…
- Transmission-based precautions: contact, droplet and airborneMeasures added to standard precautions when a patient has, or may have, an infection spread by…
Procedure
- Putting on and taking off personal protective equipmentPutting PPE on and taking it off in the right order protects against self-contamination, which…
- Setting up a sterile field and putting on sterile glovesHow to open sterile supplies, set up a field and put on sterile gloves without contaminating…
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Educational content for students; it does not replace your institution's protocols, supervised clinical training or a prescriber's order. Dose-calculation examples use made-up numbers: they are educational, not a clinical order.
Representative model, for educational purposes only.