scholarly journals Aftermath of Covid-19 Pandemic on oral surgery and orthodontic practices in Northern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Variyta ◽  
Monika Chhabra ◽  
Ravi Narula
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Oral Surgery ◽  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The scuttlebutt is already churning out projections about what the post COVID-19 work environment might look like. While we get ‘old-school’ in tackling challenges, we may also want to consider getting ‘tech savvy’ in regards to oral health delivery via teledentistry for prior consultation ultimately decreasing footfall in OPDs. The COVID-19 outbreak serves as both a reminder and an opportunity to assist. This is an ever evolving dynamic situation, and recommendations discussed herein are based on the best currently available information. However, the decision of the treatment of patients still rests with the individual practitioner. The blanket instruction is to dodge all aerosol related procedures in dental setups. It’s dentist prerogative to install all fail-safes and perform restorative procedure requiring AGPs with all efforts to mitigate the risk of transmission of the SARS-Cov-2 virus and for minimal working times with the appropriate PPE and infection control protocols. Even when not using AGPs, it is important that robust infection control measures are employed as this isn’t a perfect world, and we’re still in the throes of a pandemic, making it imperative to cultivate the right mind-set within ourselves. The intent of the present review is to consider changes in the clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery and orthodontic workflow and, allow for a smoother transition, with less risk to our patients and healthcare personnel.

Healthcare personnel experiences implementing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection control measures at a ventilator-capable skilled nursing facility—A qualitative analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Katharina R. Rynkiewich ◽  
Jinal Makhija ◽  
Mary Carl M. Froilan ◽  
Ellen C. Benson ◽  
Alice Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Carbapenem Resistant ◽  
Resident Care ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Self Protection

Abstract Objective: Ventilator-capable skilled nursing facilities (vSNFs) are critical to the epidemiology and control of antibiotic-resistant organisms. During an infection prevention intervention to control carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), we conducted a qualitative study to characterize vSNF healthcare personnel beliefs and experiences regarding infection control measures. Design: A qualitative study involving semistructured interviews. Setting: One vSNF in the Chicago, Illinois, metropolitan region. Participants: The study included 17 healthcare personnel representing management, nursing, and nursing assistants. Methods: We used face-to-face, semistructured interviews to measure healthcare personnel experiences with infection control measures at the midpoint of a 2-year quality improvement project. Results: Healthcare personnel characterized their facility as a home-like environment, yet they recognized that it is a setting where germs were ‘invisible’ and potentially ‘threatening.’ Healthcare personnel described elaborate self-protection measures to avoid acquisition or transfer of germs to their own household. Healthcare personnel were motivated to implement infection control measures to protect residents, but many identified structural barriers such as understaffing and time constraints, and some reported persistent preference for soap and water. Conclusions: Healthcare personnel in vSNFs, from management to frontline staff, understood germ theory and the significance of multidrug-resistant organism transmission. However, their ability to implement infection control measures was hampered by resource limitations and mixed beliefs regarding the effectiveness of infection control measures. Self-protection from acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms was a strong motivator for healthcare personnel both outside and inside the workplace, and it could explain variation in adherence to infection control measures such as a higher hand hygiene adherence after resident care than before resident care.

scholarly journals ‘…you just put up with it for the sake of humanity.’: an exploratory qualitative study on causes of stress in palliative care nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e051550
Author(s):  
Susann May ◽  
Kerstin Stahlhut ◽  
Matthew Allsop ◽  
Martin Heinze ◽  
Felix Mühlensiepen
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Hospice Care ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Care Nursing

ObjectiveTo explore and analyse causes of stress among nurses in palliative and inpatient hospice care settings in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.DesignExplorative, qualitative study using problem-centred interviews. Interview data were analysed using structured qualitative content analysis.SettingTelephone interviews with nurses of different settings of palliative and inpatient hospice care.Participants16 nurses from inpatient hospice, palliative care units and specialised palliative home care were recruited.ResultsCOVID-19 infection control measures placed both physical and psychological strain on palliative care nurses. Due to changes in infection control information, workflows were being readjusted on a daily basis, preventing everyday routines and hindering relief from stress. There are reduced and limited opportunities for sharing and reflecting on daily working routines with team colleagues. Specific causes of stress in the individual settings of palliative and inpatient hospice care were identified. Overall, there is a tension between the nurses’ perceptions of proper palliative care nursing, in terms of closeness, psychosocial and emotional support and compliance with infection control measures.ConclusionsPalliative care nurses have been exposed to high levels of both physical and psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires rapid relief and support, with a need to ensure continuity of professional supervision and peer-support, which may be facilitated via digital technologies. The unique role of nurses in inpatient hospice and palliative care during COVID-19 ought to be recognised and valorised.

Coronavirus: the science behind infection control and human exposure

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Alison Phillis
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Viral Particles ◽  
Therapeutic Development ◽  
Environmental Decontamination ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Reservoir

Coronavirus SARS-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus responsible for the disease known as COVID-19. The global community is struggling with the health and economic repercussions of this novel disease, and this article is part of a series that seeks to explore and explain the science behind the foci of infection control measures being considered at both the individual and population health levels. Understanding the factors influencing the ability of this virus to select an appropriate host, breach initial defences and successfully assume a new reservoir from which to disseminate and disperse infective viral particles is considered here. Brief reference is made to infection control measures such as effective hand hygiene, glove usage, environmental decontamination and social distancing guidance against the context of the specific evidence around COVID-19 transmission. Predictors of poorer outcome are introduced in the light of these being target themes for therapeutic development.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Infection Control: Philosophical Frameworks

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Bryan ◽  
Theresa J. Call ◽  
Kevin C. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Individual

Recent developments that are relevant to the ethics of infection control include the patient safety movement, the appearance of new diseases (notably, severe acute respiratory syndrome) that pose threats to healthcare workers, data confirming the suspicion that infection control measures such as isolation may compromise patient care, and, in philosophy, renewed interest in virtue ethics and communitarianism. We review general ethical frameworks and relevant vocabulary for infection control practitioners and hospital epidemiologists. Frameworks for the ethics of infection control resemble those of public health more than those of clinical medicine but embrace elements of both. The optimum framework, we suggest, takes into account a virtue-based communitarianism. The virtue ethics movement stresses the need to consider not only rules and outcomes but also the character of the individual(s) involved. Communitarianism emphasizes the well-being and values of local communities, best determined by shared, democratic decision making among stakeholders. Brief discussions of 15 consecutive cases illustrate the extent to which the daily practice of infection control poses problems heavily freighted with ethical overtones.

scholarly journals Risk of infection and appeal to public benefit increase compliance with infection control measures

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Bjørkheim ◽  
Bjørn Sætrevik
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Infection Risk ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Societal Benefits ◽  
Risk Scenario ◽  
The Individual

To handle an infectious outbreak, the public must be informed about the infection risk and be motivated to comply with infection control measures. Perceiving the situation as threatening and seeing public benefits to complying may increase the public’s motivation to comply. The current study used a preregistered survey experiment to investigate if emphasizing high infection risk and appealing to societal benefits impacted intention to comply with infection control measures. The results show main effects of risk and of appeals to societal benefits. There was no interaction between risk scenario and motivational emphasis. The results suggest that to maximize compliance, information about disease outbreak should emphasize the individual risk of contracting the disease, and could also underline the public value of limiting infection spread. These findings can inform communication strategies during an infectious disease outbreak and help health authorities limit transmission.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding tuberculosis amongst healthcare workers in Moyen-Ogooué Province, Gabon

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Vigenschow ◽  
Jean Ronald Edoa ◽  
Bayode Romeo Adegbite ◽  
Pacome Achimi Agbo ◽  
Ayola A. Adegnika ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Tuberculosis Infection ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
High Knowledge ◽  
Tuberculosis Infection Control ◽  
Knowledge Levels

Abstract Background In countries with a high tuberculosis incidence such as Gabon, healthcare workers are at enhanced risk to become infected with tuberculosis due to their occupational exposure. In addition, transmission can occur between patients and visitors, if a tuberculosis infection is not suspected in time. Knowledge about tuberculosis and correct infection control measures are therefore highly relevant in healthcare settings. Methods We conducted an interviewer-administered knowledge, attitude and practice survey amongst healthcare workers in 20 healthcare facilities at all levels in the Moyen-Ogooué province, Gabon. Correctly answered knowledge questions were scored and then categorised into four knowledge levels. Additionally, factors associated with high knowledge levels were identified. Fisher’s Exact test was used to identify factors associated with high knowledge levels. Results A total of 103 questionnaires were completed by various healthcare personnel. The most-frequently scored category was ‘intermediate knowledge’, which was scored by 40.8% (42/103), followed by ‘good knowledge’ with 28.2% (29/103) and ‘poor knowledge’ with 21.4% (22/103) of participating healthcare workers, respectively. ‘Excellent knowledge’ was achieved by 9.7% (10/103) of the interviewees. Apart from the profession, education level, type of employing healthcare facility, as well as former training on tuberculosis were significantly associated with high knowledge scores. Attitudes were generally positive towards tuberculosis infection control efforts. Of note, healthcare workers reported that infection control measures were not consistently practiced; 72.8% (75/103) of the participants were scared of becoming infected with tuberculosis, and 98.1% saw a need for improvement of local tuberculosis control. Conclusions The survey results lead to the assumption that healthcare workers in the Moyen-Ogooué province are at high risk to become infected with tuberculosis. There is an urgent need for improvement of tuberculosis infection control training for local healthcare personnel, particularly for less trained staff such as assistant nurses. Furthermore, the lack of adequate infection control measures reported by staff could possibly be correlated with a lack of adequate facility structures and protective equipment and requires further investigation.

scholarly journals The Consistency of Islamic and Medical Perspectives in the Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mossad Abdelhak Shaban Mohamed ◽  
Hans Van Rosternberghe ◽  
Noraida Ramli ◽  
Nor Rosidah Ibrahim ◽  
Manar Mossad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Care Guidelines ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Control Authority ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medical Recommendations ◽  
Medical Guidelines

Controlling the current COVID-19 pandemic requires infection control at both the individual and global levels.  There is insufficient information on the consistency between Islamic principles and medical guidelines regarding infection control measures. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the consistency between Islamic principles and evidence-based medical recommendations during the pandemic time. A comparison was made between the latest medical infection control recommendations and Islamic references (the Quran and its interpretation, and Sunnah and its explanation). Relevant materials such as books and research articles in Arabic or English were reviewed. The information was then classified into different levels of infection control strategies, which were individual, household, community and healthcare unit levels. This study demonstrated that both Islamic principles and medical guidelines are consistent in terms of infection control, which involves crisis supervision by the infection control authority and specialised agencies, hand and general hygiene, personal protection, seeking specialist consultation and treatment, comprehensive care, guidelines in the event of limited resources, home isolation, travel bans and quarantine. Moreover, it was observed that Islamic principles combine and optimise both the individual frame and societal cohesion.

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