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Decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices for health care facilities: aide-memoire (2022)

Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection (ChEETAh): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-in (2022)

Reseña normativa de la OMS: mantenimiento de las medidas de prevención y control de la COVID-19 en los establecimientos de salud, 14 de septiembre de 2022 (2022)

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	Decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices for health care facilities: aide-memoire NEW World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC View PDF(2) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX Decontamination of medical devices plays an important role in the prevention of health care-associated infections. It includes cleaning, disinfection and/or sterilization. The processes involved in decontamination are complex, require specific infrastructure and equipment, and involve several sequential steps that need to be performed correctly – from device collection and receipt by the decontamination unit to processing, storage and distribution throughout the facility. Quality control procedures (such as validation) at each step of the decontamination process are of the utmost importance to ensure the correct functioning of the equipment and processes. This aide-memoire presents a concise overview of important advice and key elements at a glance Tags: decontamination, Disinfection, Sterilization, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Sanitation Safety Planning World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(1636) Download (1009) Add to my MEDBOX Manual for step-by-step risk management for safely managed sanitation systems. 2nd edition. This Sanitation safety planning (SSP) manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance to assist in the implementation of the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on sanitation and health and the 2006 WHO Guidelines for safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture. The approach and tools should be applied to all sanitary systems to ensure that they are managed to meet health objectives. The SSP manual is targeted at a variety of users at different levels including; health authorities and regulators, local authorities, sanitation utility managers, sanitation enterprises and farmers, community-based organizations, farmers associations and nongovernmental organizations Tags: WASH, Waste management, Water security, safe water, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Compendium sur le lavage des main dans les contextes pauvres en ressources The Sanitation Learning Hub (2020) CC View PDF(4) Download (4) Add to my MEDBOX 3ème édition. Le compendium fournit des conseils sur les installations de lavage des mains à faible coût qui peuvent être largement utilisées dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire. Nous espérons qu'il pourra être largement partagé par les gouvernements et les agences qui s'attaquent à la crise dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire où des installations de lavage des mains sont nécessaires de toute urgence dans les foyers, les communautés, les écoles et les établissements de santé. Le compendium comprend des informations et des lectures supplémentaires sur : les installations de lavage des mains - y compris les installations accessibles à tous, les indices environnementaux pour renforcer les comportements de lavage des mains, la promotion de l'hygiène par la distance physique Tags: Hand Hygiene, handwashing, guidance, hygiène des mains, Source: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bits
	ملخص عن غسل اليدين لإعدادات الموارد المنخفضة - مستند حي The Sanitation Learning Hub (2020) CC View PDF(4) Download (4) Add to my MEDBOX 3rd editionThe compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently needed in households, communities, schools and healthcare facilities. The compendium includes information and further reading on: handwashing facilities – including facilities that are accessible for all, environmental cues to reinforce handwashing behaviours, physical distancing hygiene promotion Tags: Hand Hygiene, handwashing, guidance, Source: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bits
	Handwashing compendium for Low Resource Settings - A living document The Sanitation Learning Hub (2020) CC View PDF(51) Download (57) Add to my MEDBOX The compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently needed in households, communities, schools and healthcare facilities. The compendium includes information and further reading on: handwashing facilities – including facilities that are accessible for all, environmental cues to reinforce handwashing behaviours, physical distancing hygiene promotion Tags: Hand Hygiene, handwashing, guidance, Source: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bits
	WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO View PDF(3602) Download (3064) Add to my MEDBOX First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants Tags: Appropriate technology, District Health Services, Hospital hygiene, Hygiene promotion, AMR, Antimicrobial resistance, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Source: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/20
	How to Hand rub? World Health Organization (2009) C_WHO View PDF(14648) Download (1263) Add to my MEDBOX Poster Tags: hand washing, poster, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	Handwashing for health care workers World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO View PDF(8) Download (5) Add to my MEDBOX Poster Tags: Hand Hygiene, hand washing, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/
	Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection (ChEETAh): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-in NIHR Global Reserach Health Unit on Global Surgery (2022) CC Open external link (20) Add to my MEDBOX The Lancet Vol.400 (2022) p.17-67-1776. Published:October 31, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01884-0. Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common complication of surgery around the world: ChEETAh trial finds routinely changing gloves and instruments for wound closure could prevent as many as one in eight SSIs in abdominal surger Tags: Surgical site infection, ipc, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), study brief, wound management, Hygiene, Sterilization, gloves, Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance
	How an ICU works to prevent or treat hospital-acquired infections Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO Open external link (22) Add to my MEDBOX Did you know that they are part of Antimicrobial Resistance? Are you clear that we can all do something to avoid them? Marcelo Barbato, intensive care physician and Director of the ICU at Hospital Maciel, the first public hospital in Uruguay with a long history in infection control, tells us Tags: Video, AMR, Antimicrobial resistance, prevention policies, hospitals, ICU, ICU management, Source: https://youtu.be/9iy3ePq3xSM

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