Ada Practical Guide To Effective Infection Prevention And Control Fifth Edition

This book outlines the importance of implementing comprehensive infection prevention and control practices in the dental office or other treatment setting. This revised edition features new chapters on Dental Water Quality and Special Considerations and Pandemic Preparedness and synthesizes the most current science-based recommendations for infection prevention and control in dental settings from the CDC and Federal agency rules and regulations, including OSHA, the FDA, and the EPA. The book is organized into five chapters: Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and Control Chapter 2: Disinfection and Sterilization Chapter 3: Dental Water Quality Chapter 4: Infection Control During Clinical Procedures Chapter 5: Special Considerations and Pandemic Preparedness. Includes a self-assessment checklist of current infection control practices and review questions to reinforce important concepts. An accompanying CE quiz worth three credits is available at ADACEonline.org.

The ADA Practical Guide to Effective Infection Prevention and Control, Fifth Edition, outlines the importance of implementing comprehensive infection prevention and control practices in the dental office or other treatment setting. This revised edition features new chapters on Dental Water Quality and Special Considerations and Pandemic Preparedness and synthesizes the most current science-based recommendations for infection prevention and control in dental settings from the CDC and Federal agency rules and regulations, including OSHA, the FDA, and the EPA. The book is organized into five chapters: Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and Control Chapter 2: Disinfection and Sterilization Chapter 3: Dental Water Quality Chapter 4: Infection Control During Clinical Procedures Chapter 5: Special Considerations and Pandemic Preparedness. Includes a self-assessment checklist of current infection control practices and review questions to reinforce important concepts. An accompanying CE quiz worth three credits is available at ADACEonline.org. Also includes a link to the online e-book.

Infection Control: A Practical Guide for Health Care Facilities is the one source that provides you with everything you need to implement a proper infection-control program in a wide variety of health care settings - and stay up to speed with developments on both the legal and medical sides. This highly practical resource delivers: A comprehensive - and valuable - overview of proper infection prevention, surveillance, and control activities in an easily retrievable format Practical tools for effectively and efficiently administering an infection control program Ready-to-use policies and procedures essential to the infection prevention and control function Numerous related resources such as disease fact sheets, position descriptions, job-specific competency statements, and performance programs Infection Control supplies the practical tools and proven guidance that enable you to immediately: Establish a new infection control program and properly manage an existing one Stay completely up to date with national standards and relevant policies Access proven solutions to common infection-control problems Follow practical advice on daily, area-specific infection-control concerns (operating room, dialysis, etc.) from experienced infection control practitioners Quickly and efficiently develop infection control job description and evaluation protocols Infection Control has been updated to provide new chapters and new and updated exhibits and appendices, such as: Core Competencies Areas and Domains of Competency in Infection Prevention and Control Sample Position Description: Infection Prevention and Control Data Analyst Sample Position Description: Data Management Assistant Infection Control Education Plan Strategies to Promote Hand Hygiene in the Radiology Department Hazard Communication Program Infection Control for Bacterial Infections Caused by Drug-Resistant Organisms Updated Fact Sheets for Selected Diseases, Pathogens, and Infestations, including new fact sheets on: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Ebola Viral Disease Infectious Mononucleosis Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC) Molluscum Contagiosum Infection Control is authored by George Allen, PhD, CIC, CNOR, Director of Infection Control at Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn NY. Dr. Allen was recently presented with the 2010 APIC NY Chapter Infection Control Champion Award.

This title offers practical information for all members of the dental team on the prevention and control of infection; with clear explanations of the key issues and concepts, an orientation of the evidence base and legal framework as well as step-by-step guidance on the safe running of a dental practice.

"This book seeks to provide a ready reference to health care professionals on how to enhance their infection control practice. Contained within the book is an introduction to infections including healthcare-associated infections and multidrug-resistant organisms, how they are transmitted, methods to control the spread, epidemiology, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, asepsis, the environment of care, decontamination and equipment reprocessing."--Page 4 of cover

This workbook takes the infection control recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and helps the dental team put them into practice. The comprehensive workbook has been updated to reflect the recommendations from the CDC's 2016 Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care. Each chapter contains practical, how-to instructions, charts and checklists, pictures and captions, answers to common questions, and guidance for making sound clinical judgments.

A practical guide for medical personnel concerned with the prevention and control of infection. It is a useful, easy-to-access reference, intended for use mainly in hospitals, but the concepts can be applied to all aspects of health care, including community nursing and rural clinics.