Challenges for Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Hospital

Guideline for prevention of surgical site infection, 1999. Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The "Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999" presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs), formerly called surgical wound infections. This two-part guideline updates and replaces previous guidelines.1,2 Part I, "Surgical Site Infection: An Overview," describes the epidem...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Challenges of Physicians’ Training Program on Diabetes Prevention and Control

Introduction: Diabetes Prevention and Control has become among the nation's health system priorities in recent decade. Meanwhile, educational programs for executives have been designed and implemented. Tha aim of this study was to describe the situation of training of general practitioners who care diabetiv patients under National Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. Methods: This study is...

Subsector Analysis (Summary): Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention and Control

The control and prevention of hospital acquired infection.

Recently the public's attention has been focused on the issue of hospital-acquired infections. The latest Audit Commission report (National Audit Office, 2004) reveals an increase in MRSA cases from 7,250 in 2001-2002 to 7,647 in 2003-2004. This has resulted in new action plans for prevention and control of infection.