Summary: Clin Med

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• 1 Infection Control

• 1.1 Aims

• What are the aims of infection control in vet med?

  1. Reduce patient infections
  2. Reduce infections of other animals
  3. Reduce infection in veterinary personnel
  4. Reduce infection in owners/farm personnel/public

• 1.2 Principles

• What are the principles of infection prevention?

  1. Decrease exposure
  2. Decrease susceptibility
  3. Increase resistance (e.g. Vaccination)

• How does susceptibility increase in infection prevention?

  1. Immunosuppression
  2. Concurrent disease
  3. Antimicrobials
  4. Nutritional Stress
  5. Dietary changes
  6. Stress
  7. Pain
  8. Proton pump inhibitors

• How do you increase resistance in infection prevention?

  1. Vaccination
  2. Immunomodulation
  3. Probiotics

• 1.3 Infection control practices

• What are the types of infection control practices?

  1. Routine
  2. Targeted

• What does routine infection control practice do?

  It protects against regular cases/conditions and the less common cases/conditions as well. It can be implemented anytime.

• What does targeted infection control practice do?

  It protects against specific situations. It can only be implemented after a diagnosis or clinical suspicion.

• 1.4 Personal Protective Equipment

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• When do we wear PPEs?

  When indicated. Otherwise not.

• What are the basics of infection control?

  1. PPE
  2. Hand washing
  3. Identification of higher risk situations

• 1.5 Surveillance

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• What does passive surveillance entail?

  Monitoring disease, pathogen, resistance trends and patterns