Wash hands & disinfection, Noro is no longer poisonous!

August 22, 2019 | Comments Off on Wash hands & disinfection, Noro is no longer poisonous!
Norovirus, prevention, hygiene

Norovirus, also known as Norovirus, is highly infectious and mainly transmitted by the intestines. It can be transmitted through contaminated water, food, articles, air, etc., often in densely populated places such as schools, restaurants, hospitals, and nurseries. Causes concentrated disease. Norovirus infectious diarrhea is a self-limiting disease. There are no vaccines or special effects at…

Cleaning care for everyone is in your hands

August 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Cleaning care for everyone is in your hands
hygiene, infection control, hospital

Nowadays, many medical staff still do not really realize the importance of hand hygiene. The compliance of hand hygiene (in short: washing hands at the time of hand hygiene as required) is still very low. Some people have a pair of gloves to contact many patients, some people only change gloves and do not wash…

Standard for hand hygiene for healthcare workers

August 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Standard for hand hygiene for healthcare workers
Hospital hygiene standard

1 Scope This standard stipulates the management and basic requirements for hand hygiene of medical staff, hand hygiene facilities, hand washing and sanitation hand disinfection, surgical hand disinfection, and hand hygiene monitoring. This standard applies to all types of medical institutions at all levels. 2 Normative references The terms in the following documents become the…

Effective hand hygiene is the key to reducing nosocomial infections

August 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Effective hand hygiene is the key to reducing nosocomial infections
handhygiene, cleaning

Dr. Sarah Tschudin-Sutter from the University Hospital Basel in Switzerland and colleagues tried their 15-second three-step handcuffs program in a randomized crossover trial. They recruited 20 healthy participants between the ages of 18 and 51. They are randomly assigned to four different hand rubbing techniques, including; Six-step hand hygiene 30 seconds Six-step hand hygiene 15…

They can not be ignored in hospital hand hygiene

August 20, 2019 | Comments Off on They can not be ignored in hospital hand hygiene
Hospital, hand hygiene, infection control, cleaning

From the responsibility of patient care, environmental cleaning, and delivery of goods. Whether it is daily cleaning, shipping specimens, medical waste disposal, etc., there may be direct or indirect exposure to pollutants to varying degrees. Although Procter & Gamble also has hand hygiene training to help them reduce pollution, their sense of hospitality is often…

Do you know the timing of dental hand hygiene?

August 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Do you know the timing of dental hand hygiene?
Dental, clinics hand hygiene

September 20th of each year is the (China) National Love Day. The establishment of “National Love Tooth Day” is a pioneering activity in China to carry out mass oral health education activities and is an important measure to promote the development of dental disease prevention and health care in China. With regard to the five…

Wash your hands and prevent diseases, you need to know these during the school season.

August 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Wash your hands and prevent diseases, you need to know these during the school season.
wash hands

Because of the large range of activities, children are often contaminated with various viral bacteria, and about 400,000 bacteria are attached to one hand. If it is not cleaned in time, it will easily lead to the breeding of infectious diseases. Hand washing plays a very positive role in protecting students from the epidemic of…

Mobile devices of healthcare workers often contaminated by viral RNA

August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Mobile devices of healthcare workers often contaminated by viral RNA
hygiene

Mobile devices are contaminated by viral RNA due to poor adherence to cleaning protocols, particularly in paediatric settings In clinical settings, mobile phones benefit patients by placing useful data and information at the fingertips of health professionals during interactions on the ward. But are doctors and nurses unwittingly exposing vulnerable patients to a potential source…

1.7 million children die every year due to unhealthy environments

August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on 1.7 million children die every year due to unhealthy environments
hygiene

More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years are attributable to unhealthy environments. Every year, environmental risks – such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke,  unsafe water, lack of sanitation and inadequate hygiene – take the lives of 1.7 million children under 5 years, say two new World Health Organization…

Hospital grading system may put too much weight on wrong things, study finds

August 15, 2019 | Comments Off on Hospital grading system may put too much weight on wrong things, study finds
Hospital hand hygiene

When a child brings home a report card from school, part of their grade comes from how often they made it to class or turned in homework. But the larger part comes from how they did on tests, in class and on take-home assignments. In other words, how much they’ve learned, or how hard they’re…