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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(4) Download (3) 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
	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(5) Download (5) 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(52) Download (58) 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(3603) 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(9) Download (5) Add to my MEDBOX Poster Tags: Hand Hygiene, hand washing, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/
	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 Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS (2022) C_WHO View PDF(3) Download (4) Add to my MEDBOX This document aims to encourage countries to develop and implement policies to maintain and strengthen IPC programmes and measures in health care facilities in the context of the current ongoing transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, with recognition that epidemiological trends may vary and the risk of transmission of other pathogens Tags: COVID-19, ipc, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), health care facilities, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Note d’orientation : maintien des mesures de lutte anti-infectieuse contre la COVID-19 dans les établissements de santé, 14 septembre 2022 Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2022) C_WHO View PDF(38) Download (22) Add to my MEDBOX Note d'orientation 7 juin 2022. Ce document a pour but d'encourager les pays à élaborer et à mettre en œuvre des politiques visant à maintenir et à renforcer les programmes et mesures de prévention des infections dans les établissements de soins de santé dans le contexte de la transmission actuelle du SRAS-CoV-2, tout en reconnaissant que les tendances épidémiologiques peuvent varier et que le risque de transmission d'autres agents pathogènes existe Tags: COVID-19, ipc, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), health care facilities, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	WHO policy brief: Maintaining infection prevention and control measures for COVID-19 in health care facilities, 14 September 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(43) Download (26) Add to my MEDBOX This document aims to encourage countries to develop and implement policies to maintain and strengthen IPC programmes and measures in health care facilities in the context of the current ongoing transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, with recognition that epidemiological trends may vary and the risk of transmission of other pathogens Tags: COVID-19, ipc, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), health care facilities, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand

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675 records