Hospital Acquired Infections

Question 1

What are practice factors in hospitals?

Answer 1

HC workers activities
Polices (national and local)
Organisation structure
Learership from all leavels

Question 2

What are patient factors in hospital?

Answer 2

Extremes of age 
Obesity/ malnutrition 
Cancer 
Immunsurpressed 
Diabeties 
Smoker 
Surgical patient (especially emergency)
Interactions with workers

Question 3

What are pathogen factors in a hospital?

Answer 3

Virulance factors 
Ecological interactions (quorum sencing, disinfectnats)

Question 4

What are place factors in a hospital?

Answer 4

The environemt; fixed and variable features

Eg. How well spaced the beds are, how easy equipment is to clean

Question 5

What are common hospital aqquired viruses?

Answer 5

Blood borne (Hep and HIV)
Norovirus
Influenza
Chickenpox

Question 6

What are common hospital aquirred bacteria?

Answer 6

E.coli
Staph aureus (MRSA)
Clostriidium difficile
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Question 7

What are commonly aquirred hospital fungi?

Answer 7

Candidia albicans

Aspergillus species

Question 8

What are common hospital aquirred parasites?

Answer 8

Very rare in the UK

Could be Maleria