Nosocomial Infection and Prevention
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 11559
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Interests: technology; prevention; disinfection; UV radiation; LED; environmental hygiene; high touch; cross-contamination; stethoscopes; HAI
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Dear Colleagues,
Sometimes, the hospital nature to solve health problems paradoxically turns into a vehicle of infection. The medical literature has proved the importance of fighting hospital-acquired infection (HAI) to reduce both the health damages of patients (clinical complications and mortality) and healthcare costs due to increased patient length of stay and treatment. The treatment of nosocomial infections is increasingly complex and costly, even for the development of resistant microorganisms. The problem is particularly severe for the elderly, infants, and debilitated subjects (transplants, invasive surgery, etc.) and immunodeficient people. In the Western world (USA and EU-28), having a population of around 800 million people, it is estimated that, each year, about 40 billion $ US are spent for the treatment of hospital infections which nevertheless cause 140,000 more deaths.
Education and training of good hygiene practices remain the cornerstone for preventing HAI. They are often due to inadequate and shallow management of cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and sterilizing processes.
As highlighted by Dr. I.F. Semmelweis, hands are the main vehicle of cross-contamination, and still today, lack of their hygiene is the main cause of HAI. The environment has also been proven to play a role in the spread of microorganisms; shared objects that come into contact and are shared between health staff and patients are possible carriers of infection. Sanitations and disinfection techniques have been proved to reduce the level of contamination but also HAI.
Experiences, innovative strategies, and multidisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle this problem; your contribution to this Special Issue is needed in order to contrast the apparent unstoppable plague of HAI.
Prof. Gabriele Messina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Disinfection and sterilization techniques
- Innovation
- Hospital-acquired Infection (HAI)
- Environmental hygiene
- Hospital hygiene
- Surgical site Infections
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Cross-contamination
- Stethoscope hygiene
- Hand hygiene
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