Infection Prevention for the Emergency Department: Out of Reach or Standard of Care?

Stephen Y. Liang; Madison Riethman; Josephine Fox

doi:10.1016/j.emc.2018.06.013

Infection Prevention for the Emergency Department: Out of Reach or Standard of Care?

Stephen Y. Liang, Madison Riethman, Josephine Fox

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Abstract

The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care–associated infections (catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line–associated bloodstream infection) are key priorities in ED infection prevention. Effective and sustainable infection prevention strategies tailored to the ED are necessary and achievable. Emergency clinicians can and already play an invaluable role in infection prevention.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	873-887
Number of pages	15
Journal	Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2018.06.013
State	Published - Nov 2018

Keywords

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
Central line–associated bloodstream infection
Emergency department
Environmental cleaning
Hand hygiene
Infection prevention
Ventilator-associated pneumonia

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