Environmental services strategies for common superbugs

New materials can help improve patient care


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee offered information on ways to reduce the risk for transmission multidrug-resistant organisms and other emergent pathogens, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.

 C. difficile, for instance, is a tremendous source of mortality and morbidity to the healthcare delivery system.

The CDC recommendations for C. difficile include:

• Isolating patients with suspected or confirmed C. difficile disease immediately.

• Collaborating with the facility’s ES professionals to ensure that room surfaces are cleaned thoroughly on a daily basis and also upon discharge. It is important to use an EPA-approved, spore-killing disinfectant for units where there is potential transmission.

Read the article.

 

 



June 23, 2016


Topic Area: Infection Control


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