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Infection Control - Updates
Edited by Christopher Sudhakar, ISBN 978-953-51-0055-3, Hard cover, 198 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: February 22, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Infectious Diseases
DOI: 10.5772/2251
Health care associated infection is coupled with significant morbidity and mortality. Prevention and control of infection is indispensable part of health care delivery system. Knowledge of Preventing HAI can help health care providers to make informed and therapeutic decisions thereby prevent or reduce these infections. Infection control is continuously evolving science that is constantly being updated and enhanced. The book will be very useful for all health care professionals to combat with health care associated infections.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Healthcare Associated Infections: Nuisance in the Modern Medical Epoch
- Chapter 2Health Care Associated Infections: Sources and Routes of Transmission
- Chapter 3Models of Hospital Acquired Infection
- Chapter 4Infection Control in Developing World
- Chapter 5Prevention of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Patients on Hemodialysis
- Chapter 6Implementation of MRSA Infection Prevention and Control Measures – What Works in Practice?
- Chapter 7Implementation of a Need Based Participatory Training Program on Hospital Infection Control: A Clinical Practice Improvement Project
- Chapter 8Infectious Disease and Personal Protection Techniques for Infection Control in Dentistry
- Chapter 9Skin Irritation Caused by Alcohol-Based Hand Rubs
- Chapter 10Heteroresistance
- Chapter 11Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Newer β-Lactamases: An Emerging Resistance Threat
