Hospital infections

Elisabeth Presterl; Magda Diab-El Schahawi; Luigi Segagni Lusignani; Helga Paula; Jacqui S. Reilly

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02026-2

Hospital infections

Elisabeth Presterl^*, Magda Diab-El Schahawi^*, Luigi Segagni Lusignani, Helga Paula, Jacqui S. Reilly

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Hospital infections occur during hospital stay, and they cause prolonged stay, disability and economic burden. The infections in the healthcare facilities are multifactorial; they can be caused by breaches of infection control practices and procedures or contact with unclean and non-sterile environmental surfaces, and they can be associated with the devices used in medical procedures, such as catheters or ventilators. The most common type of hospital infections are surgical wound infections, respiratory infections and genitourinary infections.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Basic Microbiology and Infection Control for Midwives
Editors	Elisabeth Presterl, Magda Diab-El Schahawi, Jacqui S. Reilly
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	9
Pages	85-91
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030020262
ISBN (Print)	9783030020255
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02026-2
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

incubation
healthcare
prevention
device
surveillance

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