Running an infection control regular meeting is an effective way to develop and improve the communication between the infection control team and clinical units. This paper introduces the infection control regular monthly meeting which is held in the last week of each month in a newly-opened branch hospital of a university teaching hospital in China. Through collecting the issues for discussion beforehand, feeding back the surveillance data of last month including nosocomial infection, hand hygiene, multidrug-resistant organisms, occupational exposure, and medical waste, discussing the current infection control issues from each ward and trying to solve them together, and delivering and sharing new knowledge, skills, and information in terms of infection control, the monthly meeting achieves remarkable successes in the aspects of promoting the hospital infection control-related cultural construction, enhancing the supervision and implementation of infection control measures, and running new projects on hospital infection management, etc. Infection control regular monthly meeting builds up a study and work platform, promotes the multidisciplinary and multi-department communication and collaboration, and improves the quality of infection control eventually.
【摘要】 目的 了解学生对医院感染职业防护的基础知识的认知程度和学习需求。 方法 2010年3月采用自行设计问卷，对参加《医院感染与职业防护》课程学习的医学学生进行摸底调查。 结果 92.73%不知道标准预防措施和锐器伤后的正确处理方法及补救措施；27.27%不知道抽血时应戴手套；25.45%不清楚医务人员“六步洗手法”；90.91%不知晓工作服应交医院统一洗涤。 结论 学生防护知识薄弱，防护行为不全面、不规范。教学应重点帮助学生树立标准预防观念，掌握正确职业防护知识，在临床工作中以避免和减少各种危险因素的侵袭。【Abstract】 Objective To examine and evaluate the students’ knowledge and needs in studying hospital infection control and occupational protection. Methods Using a self-designed questionnaire in March 2010, we did a survey on students who attended the course of hospital infection control and occupational protection. Results Among all the students, 92.73% did not know standard prevention measures, and the correct treatment and remedial measures for sharp injuries; 27.27% did not know gloves should be worn at the time of blood drawing; 25.45% did not know the "six-step" hand-washing; and less than one out of ten students used hospital laundry to wash their uniform. Conclusions The students have a low level of relevant knowledge on occupational protection, and their protection behaviors were not complete or standard. Therefore, the teaching should help and support students to have a concept of standard prevention, and acquire sound knowledge and behavior of occupational protection in order to avoid and reduce the risk factors from their future clinical practices.
ObjectiveTo optimize procedures of going out for examination for patients with multidrug-resistant organism, strengthen prevention and control management of nosocomial infection, and prevent nosocomial infection.MethodsPatients with multidrug-resistant organism who went out for examination were selected from April to November 2018. April to July 2018 (before implementation) was process construction stage, and August to November 2018 (after implementation) was process optimization implementation stage. In April 2018, process and management system of going out for multidrug-resistant organism patients were formulated, training of transporters was strengthened, and measures such as checklist identification, accompany patients for examination, patient handover, isolation and protection, and disinfection of materials were implemented, to realize the infection prevention and control management in the whole process of going out for multidrug-resistant organism patients. We compared relevant indicators before and after implementation.ResultsA total of 262 cases times of patients with multidrug-resistant organism were included, including 134 cases times before implementation and 128 cases times after implementation. Compared with before implementation, the hand hygiene, wearing gloves, disinfection of inspection instruments and articles, patient transfer, isolation measures in waiting process (special elevator, isolation after waiting for inspection, arrange inspection time reasonably), education and training after implementation improved(P<0.05). Before and after implementation, the Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus detection rate difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).ConclusionsThe optimization of procedures of examination for patients with multidrug-resistant organism can increase implementation rate of indirect indicators such as hand hygiene, disinfection of inspection instruments and articles, isolation and protection, education and training in the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant organism in nosocomial infection. And it is important for the prevention and control of multi-disciplinary collaboration of multidrug-resistant organism.
目的 了解艾滋病高发区医务人员血源防护情况以及培训所取得的效果。 方法 采用自行设计的问卷，对凉山州某医院参加培训的职工进行培训前后调查。 结果 培训前89人参加调查，培训后93人参加调查；女性、护士和初级职称者占绝大多数；培训前调查参加者中84.3%接受过预防锐器伤培训，79.8%工作中被锐器刺伤，38.2%报告过职业暴露，95.5%接种过乙肝疫苗；6道知识考核题培训后答对率比培训前均有不同程度的提高，其中4道比较具有统计学上的意义（P＜0.05）。 结论 该院医务人员已具备一定职业防护意识，对一些知识点掌握较好，但培训强化可提高职业暴露报告依从性和预防治疗及时性，更好维护艾滋病高发区医务人员的职业健康。
ObjectiveTo study the feasibility of using paper hand towels instead of sterilized hand towels in non-rinse surgical hand antisepsis, and make a hygienic and economic evaluation on sterilized hand towels and paper hand towels.MethodsFrom July to September 2016, a cluster sampling method was used to study the hand samples of all health care workers who performed surgical hand sanitization in the operating room on Thursday. According to their work contents, they were asigned into the intervention group (using paper hand towels to dry hands) and the control group (using sterilized hand towels to dry hands); further, according to the odd or even number of the staff identification number, the intervention group was divided into Group A (using Likang hand towels to dry hands) and Group B (using Qingfeng hand towels to dry hands). The packing specifications and costs of hand-drying items in the warehouse were surveyed, as well as the average number of medical workers performing an operation and the number of sheets of sterilized hand towels or paper hand towels used per person, and the cost of different hand dryers for each procedure was calculated. Finally, the hygienic and economic effects of using paper hand towels were evaluated.ResultsThere were 30, 39, and 30 hand hygiene samples collected in the control group, Group A, and Group B, respectively. The total bacterial count of each group was less than 5 cfu/cm2, which met the hygienic requirements of surgical hand disinfection in the manual hygiene standard for medical personnel (WS/T 313－2019), i.e., the passing rate of each group was 100%. According to the calculation that each operation required at least 4 medical workers, each operation consumed 8 sterilized hand towels at a cost of 15.2 yuan; if using paper hand towels, each operation consumed 16 sheets at a cost of 0.8 yuan.ConclusionThe hygienic effect of surgical hand disinfection is not affected by the use of paper hand towels before applying hand sanitizer, while the operating cost of hospital operating room can be significantly reduced by using paper hand towels instead of sterilized hand towels.
ObjectiveTo analyze the risk factors of multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) nosocomial infection, and to provide the scientific basis for the prevention and control of MDRO nosocomial infection.MethodsPatients with MDRO in Chengdu Shangjin Nanfu Hospital from 2014 to 2015 were retrospectively collected. The patients were divided into the MDRO nosocomial infection group and the MDRO non-nosocomial infection group. The MDRO infection/colonization, bacterial strain type, specimens type and distribution characteristics of clinical departments were analyzed. Single factor and multiple factor logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the risk factors of MDRO nosocomial infection.ResultsA total of 357 patients of MDRO infection/colonization were monitored, of which 147 times (144 patients) were with nosocomial infections and 213 times (213 patients) were without nosocomial infections. MDRO nosocomial infection incidence rate/cases incidence rate were 0.18%. A total of 371 MDRO bacterial strains were detected, of which 147 (39.62%) were with nosocomial infection and 224 (60.38%) were without nosocomial infections. The MDRO non-nosocomial infections included 175 strains (47.17%) in community infection and 49 strains (13.12%) in colonization. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (52.83%) was the main MDRO strains. Sputum (57.14%) and secretion (35.04%) were main specimens. The top three departments of MDRO nosocomial infection strains were orthopedics (32.65%), ICU (27.89%), neurosurgery (13.61%). ICU [odds ratio (OR)=3.596, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.124, 11.501), P=0.031], surgical history [OR=2.858, 95%CI (1.061, 7.701), P=0.038], indwelling urinary catheter [OR=3.250, 95%CI (1.025, 10.306), P=0.045], and using three or more antibiotics [OR=4.228, 95%CI (1.488, 12.011), P=0.007] were the independent risk factors of MDRO nosocomial infection.ConclusionEffective infection prevention and control measures should be adopted for the risk factors of MDRO nosocomial infection to reduce the incidence rate of MDRO nosocomial infection.
Objective To survey the current situation of the sharp injury in medical workers, and to provide scientific evidence for the prevention and protection of sharp injury. Methods Through applying the questionnaire of sharp injuries designed by Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Fudan University, 10% of the workers in all departments of West China Hospital of Sichuan University were selected as respondents according to their job categories. The main contents of the survey included the general information of respondents, reporting after sharp injuries, training participation, and the exposure sources, operations, premises and equipments related to sharp injuries over the past one year.Results Of 840 questionnaires distributed, 100% were valid. The ratio of male was 23% while the female was 72%. There were 50.20% of all respondents who once got injured, and 75% of the respondents having the history of sharp injury worked less than 10 years. The nurses, house keepers and physicians were in the top three positions of suffering from sharp injury; and the operating room was ranked as the highest risk department for sharp injuries. The known haematogenous exposure sources were 69 cases of hepatitis B, 19 syphilis, 6 hepatitis C, and 3 HIV. There were 62% of the respondents who had ever attended related training, and only 11.61% of the injured respondents reported their sharp injuries. Conclusion The incidence rate of the sharp injury is high, but the report rate is low. The operating room is the high risk department, and nurses, house keepers, and physicians are the high risk population for sharp injuries. The prevention and protection and training for sharp injury in target departments and population should be strengthened.