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Public Awareness of Nosocomial Infections

Learn about hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and the significant impact on patient health, including stats on incidence and related deaths. Explore the WHO's guide for HAI prevention strategies and an awareness plan involving informative leaflets.

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Public Awareness of Nosocomial Infections

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  1. Public Awareness of Nosocomial Infections

  2. What is nosocomial infections ? • “Hospital-acquired infections”: • infections acquired during hospital care which were not present or incubating at admission.

  3. Incidence of HAI’s • In 2002 approximately 1.7 million cases of infection. • 33,269 among newborns in high-risk nurseries (1.95%) • 19,059 among newborns in well-baby nurseries (1.12%) • 417,946 among adults and children in ICUs (24.58%) • 1,266,851 among adults and children outside of ICUs (72.32%)

  4. Incidence of HAI’s

  5. Deaths related to HAI’s • The estimated deaths associated with HAIs in U.S. hospitals were 98,987 • 35,967 were for pneumonia (36.33%) • 30,665 for bloodstream infections (30.97%) • 13,088 for urinary tract infections (13.22%) • 8,205 for surgical site infections (8.28%) • 11,062 for infections of other sites (11.17%)

  6. Deaths related to HAI’s

  7. WHO’s practical guide for prevention of HAI’s • 1) Infection control programs. • 2) Nosocomial infection surveillance. • 3) Dealing with outbreaks. • 4) Prevention of nosocomial infection. • 5) Prevention of common endemic nosocomial infections. • 6) Environment. • 7) Antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance. • 8) Preventing infections of staff.

  8. The awareness plan • Distribution of leaflets and brochures containing the simple and essential information about contact infections. • Given to patients and their families.

  9. MRSA

  10. C. Difficile

  11. Group 5A ABDULAZIZ ABDULLAH BASAQR RAFAT HUSSAM ABUSHANAB MAMDOOH SALEM BASHAMMAKH MOAYAD MAJED AL-QURASHY IS'HAQ FAISAL DEWAN MOHAMMED SHAUIB AL-ZHRANI TARIQ MOHAMAD AWIDAH RIDWAN ADIL SLAGOR ABDULRAHMAN HOSNY AZIZALRAHMAN ABDULHADY ALI BINDAJAM MOHAMMED ABDULMAJEED NYAZ ABDULRAHMAN SAAD AL-SULIMANI MOAYAD ALI BATTAYEB OMAR MUNTASER RASLAN MOHAMMED KHALID AL-NAHHAS

  12. THANK YOU

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