This book reviews evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings. The book summarizes the current data oninfection prevention, presents controversies on the various topics, and includes recommendations for patient safety. Addressing hot topics such as MRSA, C. difficile vaccination, mandatory flu vaccines, and CLABSI, this is the only text to include prevention and control overviews across a range of infection issues. Written by experts in thefield, this book contains 32 chapters that educates and presents the most cutting-edge models of care on emerging and evolving topics in infectious diseases.
Infection Prevention: New Perspectives and Controversies is a valuable resource for infection prevention professionals, healthcare quality and safety professionals, caring for patients in in- and outpatient settings.
Table of Contents:
Ch. 1: HAI Controversies: Contact Precautions
Elise Martin, Zachary Rubin, Rekha K. Murthy
Ch. 2: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technologies: Implementation and Outcomes
Claudia Denisse Jarrin Tejada
Ch. 3: Universal Glove and Gown Use for the prevention of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)
Lindsay Croft, Daniel J. Morgan
Ch. 4: Isolation Precautions for Visitors to Healthcare Settings
Maroun Sfeir, Matthew S. Simon, David Banach
Ch. 5: Bacterial contamination of the anesthesia work area: hands, patients, and
things
Derya Mahmutoglu, L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Ch. 6: Infection Control in the Outpatient Setting
John Daniel Markley, Michael P. Stevens
Ch. 7: New Technologies for Infection Prevention
Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 8: What is the Role of Mobile No-touch Disinfection Technology in Optimizing
Healthcare Environmental Hygiene?
Philip C. Carling
Ch. 9: Universal MRSA/Staphylococcal Decolonization for Hospitalized Patients
Edward J Septimus
Ch. 10: Staphylococcal Decolonization in Surgery Patients
Andrew Ludwig, E. Patchen Dellinger
Ch. 11: The Surgical Care Improvement Project redux: Should CMS revive
process of care measures for prevention of surgical site infections?
Deborah S. Yokoe
Ch. 12: Healthcare Worker Apparel and Infection Prevention
Salma Muhammad Abbas, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 13: Antimicrobial Textiles and Infection Prevention – Clothes and Inanimate
Environment
Rachel H. McQueen, Briana Ehnes
Ch. 14: Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli - Infection Prevention
Considerations
Oryan Henig, David E. Katz, Dror Marchaim
Ch. 15: Active surveillance cultures for MRSA, VRE, Multidrug Resistant Gram-
negatives
Amar Krishna, Teena Chopra
Ch. 16: C. difficile Microbiome manipulation
Jenna Wick, Tinzar Basein, Shira Doron
Ch. 17: Air Contamination in the Hospital Environment
Luis A. Shimose, Eriko Masuda, Ana Berbel Caban, L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Ch. 18: Vertical versus horizontal infection control interventions
Salma Muhammad Abbas, Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens
Ch. 19: The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist
Kristina A. Bryant
Ch. 20: Whole Genome Sequencing for Outbreak Investigation
Tara N. Palmore
Ch. 21: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Preparedness
Angela Hewlett, Angela M. Vasa, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Shelly Schwedhelm
Ch. 22: Probiotics and Infection Prevention
Whitney Perry, Shira Doron
Ch. 23: Animals in Healthcare Settings
Rekha K. Murthy, Vivek Pandrangi, David J. Weber
Ch. 24: Decolonization in Infection Control of Gram-negative Bacilli
David Thomas, David Banach
Ch. 25: Testing water for Legionella Prevention
Brooke K. Decker, Cornelius J. Clancy
Ch. 26: The importance of C. difficile colonization on infection prevention
Natalia Blanco, Surbhi Leekha
Ch. 27: Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel
Bryan D. Harris, Thomas R. Talbot
Ch. 28: Controversies in Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance
Geetika Sood, Surbhi Leekha
Ch. 29: Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Outside the Intensive Care Unit
Megan Buller, Kyle J. Popovich
Ch. 30: Airborne Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment: The Powered
Air-Purifying Respirator-Only Approach
Pranavi V. Sreeramoju, Jose Cadena
Ch. 31: Donning and Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Is Training
Necessary?
Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 32: Rapid Diagnostics in Infection Prevention
Sara Revolinski, Angela M. Huang, Allison Gibble
About the Author :
Gonzalo Bearman MD, MPH
Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Medicine-Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases/ Hospital Epidemiologist
Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
1300 East Marshall Street
PO BOX 980019
Richmond, Virginia 23298, United States of America
T: (804) 828-2121
F: (804) 828-2125
Email: gonzalo.bearman@vcuhealth.org
L. Silvia Munoz-Price, MD, PhD
Enterprise Epidemiologist
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States of America
T: (414) 955-8020
Email: smunozprice@mcw.edu
Daniel J Morgan, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist
Epidemiology, Public Health and Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 S. Pine Street
MSTF 334
Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States of America
T: (410) 706-1734
Email: dmorgan@epi.umaryland.edu
