Main description:

This book reviews evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings. The book summarizes the current data oninfection prevention, presents controversies on the various topics, and includes recommendations for patient safety. Addressing hot topics such as MRSA, C. difficile vaccination, mandatory flu vaccines, and CLABSI, this is the only text to include prevention and control overviews across a range of infection issues. Written by experts in thefield, this book contains 32 chapters that educates and presents the most cutting-edge models of care on emerging and evolving topics in infectious diseases.
Infection Prevention: New Perspectives and Controversies is a valuable resource for infection prevention professionals, healthcare quality and safety professionals, caring for patients in in- and outpatient settings.

Contents:

Ch. 1: HAI Controversies: Contact Precautions

Elise Martin, Zachary Rubin, Rekha K. Murthy

Ch. 2: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technologies: Implementation and Outcomes

Claudia Denisse Jarrin Tejada

Ch. 3: Universal Glove and Gown Use for the prevention of methicillin-resistant

Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Lindsay Croft, Daniel J. Morgan

Ch. 4: Isolation Precautions for Visitors to Healthcare Settings

Maroun Sfeir, Matthew S. Simon, David Banach

Ch. 5: Bacterial contamination of the anesthesia work area: hands, patients, and

things

Derya Mahmutoglu, L. Silvia Munoz-Price

Ch. 6: Infection Control in the Outpatient Setting

John Daniel Markley, Michael P. Stevens

Ch. 7: New Technologies for Infection Prevention

Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman

Ch. 8: What is the Role of Mobile No-touch Disinfection Technology in Optimizing

Healthcare Environmental Hygiene?

Philip C. Carling

Ch. 9: Universal MRSA/Staphylococcal Decolonization for Hospitalized Patients

Edward J Septimus

Ch. 10: Staphylococcal Decolonization in Surgery Patients

Andrew Ludwig, E. Patchen Dellinger

Ch. 11: The Surgical Care Improvement Project redux: Should CMS revive

process of care measures for prevention of surgical site infections?

Deborah S. Yokoe

Ch. 12: Healthcare Worker Apparel and Infection Prevention

Salma Muhammad Abbas, Gonzalo Bearman

Ch. 13: Antimicrobial Textiles and Infection Prevention - Clothes and Inanimate

Environment

Rachel H. McQueen, Briana Ehnes

Ch. 14: Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli - Infection Prevention

Considerations

Oryan Henig, David E. Katz, Dror Marchaim

Ch. 15: Active surveillance cultures for MRSA, VRE, Multidrug Resistant Gram-

negatives

Amar Krishna, Teena Chopra

Ch. 16: C. difficile Microbiome manipulation

Jenna Wick, Tinzar Basein, Shira Doron

Ch. 17: Air Contamination in the Hospital Environment

Luis A. Shimose, Eriko Masuda, Ana Berbel Caban, L. Silvia Munoz-Price

Ch. 18: Vertical versus horizontal infection control interventions

Salma Muhammad Abbas, Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens

Ch. 19: The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist

Kristina A. Bryant

Ch. 20: Whole Genome Sequencing for Outbreak Investigation

Tara N. Palmore

Ch. 21: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Preparedness

Angela Hewlett, Angela M. Vasa, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Shelly Schwedhelm

Ch. 22: Probiotics and Infection Prevention

Whitney Perry, Shira Doron

Ch. 23: Animals in Healthcare Settings

Rekha K. Murthy, Vivek Pandrangi, David J. Weber

Ch. 24: Decolonization in Infection Control of Gram-negative Bacilli

David Thomas, David Banach

Ch. 25: Testing water for Legionella Prevention

Brooke K. Decker, Cornelius J. Clancy

Ch. 26: The importance of C. difficile colonization on infection prevention

Natalia Blanco, Surbhi Leekha

Ch. 27: Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel

Bryan D. Harris, Thomas R. Talbot

Ch. 28: Controversies in Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance

Geetika Sood, Surbhi Leekha

Ch. 29: Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Outside the Intensive Care Unit

Megan Buller, Kyle J. Popovich

Ch. 30: Airborne Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment: The Powered

Air-Purifying Respirator-Only Approach

Pranavi V. Sreeramoju, Jose Cadena

Ch. 31: Donning and Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Is Training

Necessary?

Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman

Ch. 32: Rapid Diagnostics in Infection Prevention

Sara Revolinski, Angela M. Huang, Allison Gibble