'Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus' presentation slideshows

Superbugs and Sepsis

Superbugs and Sepsis. Overview: MRSA in your Ambulance! Sepsis: Definitions and Pathophysiology Role of the EMS Provider in Early Goal Directed Therapy for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Prehospital Testing of Lactate. Faculty . Michael Schmitz, DO, MS

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Communicable Diseases and Schools What you need to know

Communicable Diseases and Schools What you need to know. Presented by the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency. Exposure- Disease Detection Timeline. Exposure Onset of Symptoms Some electronic surveillance Seek Medical Care (maybe yes, maybe no) Some electronic surveillance

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Health Skills I Student Lecture Packet

Health Skills I Student Lecture Packet. Health Skills I. Unit 101 Infection Control. Objectives. Identify the nature of microorganisms, how organisms grow, their transmission, body defenses of the human host, and related terminology. Unit 101.1 Microorganisms. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Pavithra. G. Palan.

STAPHYLOCOCCUS. Pavithra. G. Palan. Staphylococci are gram positive cocci, Occur in grape like clusters, In Greek; staphyle - Bunch of grapes Kokkus - Berry. CLASSIFICATION: A) Based on coagulase production: 1. Coagulase positive: Eg- S. aureus

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Antibiotics in the Environment.

Antibiotics in the Environment. . Erik J. Rosenfeldt, PhD, PE Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Me. BS in Chemical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, MO MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Antibiotics in the Environment.

Antibiotics in the Environment. . Erik J. Rosenfeldt, PhD, PE Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Me. BS in Chemical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, MO MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention

Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention. Jane Carmean, RN, BSN, CIC Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Disease Investigation and Surveillance Outbreak Response Bioterrorism Investigation Team (ORBIT) (614) 995-5599 (ORBIT phone) (614)-644-2709 (desk phone)

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Customize Your Infection Control Manual

Customize Your Infection Control Manual. James Marx, RN, MS, CIC Broad Street Solutions May 2006. What Infection Control Manual?. Regulatory Title 22 Federal Conditions of Participation JCAHO OSHA. Establish your practice. Many practices are not specified in law Isolation practice

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Antibiotic Primer

Antibiotic Primer. Jen Nicol PGY-2 Dr. Sue Kuhn Dr. McPherson May 19, 2011. Objectives. Review properties of commonly used antibiotics in the ED Discuss Empiric Coverage of common infectious diseases Brief review of resistant organisms Common ID mishaps in the ED. The Drugs. The Bugs.

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Infection Control

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Antibiotic Resistance

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Theory of evolution

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INFECTION CONTROL

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Edward H. Rau Captain, USPHS, Ret. Division of Environmental Protection Office of Research Facilities National

Mad Hatters: Saving the World Or : Potential applications of strategies from an institutional mercury reduction campaign to develop a national public health initiative for reducing human exposure . Adapted from: Howard Faucett Award Acceptance Speech American Chemical Society 2005.

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Illinois Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Plan

Illinois Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Plan. Mary Fornek January 21, 2010 Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Four Components of the HAI Plan. HAI Program Infrastructure Surveillance, Detection, Reporting and Response

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Staphylococcous Aureus

Staphylococcous Aureus. Stephanie Socotch and Taylor Rathke. History of Agent - Ancient. Discovered by Scottish surgeon Sir Alexander Ogston in 1881. He observed grape-like clusters under microscope

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Antimicrobial Drugs

Antimicrobial Drugs. Chemotherapy : The use of drugs to treat a disease Antimicrobial drugs : Interfere with the growth of microbes within a host Antibiotic : A substance produced by a microbe that, in small amounts, inhibits another microbe

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Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

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MRSA

MRSA. Learning Objectives: To explain how antibiotic resistance can occur. To discuss the possible ways to reduce the spread of MRSA. Starter. Describe , with the aid of diagrams, the structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); . Superbugs !.

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