Infection Prevention and Control Safety Alerts
Safety Alerts related to infection prevention and control.
Quick Safety 61: Preventing non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia
It’s estimated that one in every 100 hospitalized patients will be affected by non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP). This issue of Quick Safety focuses on the call’s challenge to health care systems to implement and support NVHAP prevention, and to add NVHAP prevention measures to education for patients, health care professionals and students.
Sentinel Event Alert Issue 52: Preventing infection from the misuse of vials
The misuse of these vials has caused harm to individual patients through occurrences and outbreaks of bloodborne pathogens and associated infections, including hepatitis B and C virus, meningitis, and epidural abscesses.
Quick Safety 49: Disinfection of tonometers and other ophthalmology devices
This issue describes the risk of infection from tonometers and other devices that touch eyes, as well as strategies for prevention.
- Sentinel Event Alert Issue 52: Preventing infection from the misuse of vials
- Addendum to Sentinel Event Alert Issue 20: Exposure to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Sentinel Event Alert Issue 28: Infection control related sentinel events
- Quick Safety 49: Disinfection of tonometers and other ophthalmology devices
- Quick Safety 48: Drug diversion and impaired health care workers
- Quick Safety 46: Protecting patients and others from influenza in the health care setting
- Quick Safety 38: Preventing reuse of devices used for blood glucose monitoring
- Quick Safety 33: Improperly sterilized or HLD equipment – a growing problem
- Quick Safety 16: National Action Plan: Use antibiotics wisely
- Quick Safety 11: Superbug reveals challenges with high-level disinfection
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Infection Prevention and Control
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Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Toolkit and Monograph
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Toolkit and Monograph
- CLABSI Toolkit - Introduction
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 1
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 2
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 3
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 4
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 5
- CLABSI Toolkit - Chapter 6
- CLABSI Toolkit Directory, Glossary, Acknowledgements, and Disclaimer
- Ambulatory Health Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Behavioral Health Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
- Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Critical Access Hospital Infection Prevention and Control
- Dental
- Disinfection and Sterilization
- General Infection Prevention and Control
- Guidelines
- Hand Hygiene
- High Reliability and Infection Prevention
- Home Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Hospital Infection Prevention and Control
- Infection Prevention and Control Hierarchy
- Infection Prevention and Control Safety Alerts
- Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Response
- Influenza and Other Related Diseases
- Laboratory Infection Prevention and Control
- Legionnaires' Disease
- Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
- Nursing Care Center Infection Prevention and Control
- Respiratory Protection
- Sepsis
- Surgical Site Infections
- Vaccination
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Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Toolkit and Monograph