This course is about nosocomial infections, prticularly those more frequent inside Intensive Care Unit (ICU) wards, such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), blood stream infections (BSI), surgical site infection and urinary tract infections (UTI).
I’ll discuss about their epidemiology, aetiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Health-care associated infection (HAI): definition and epidemiology of the main infectious syndromes. Importance of surveillance of infectious episodes and of antibiotic resistance.
- Health-care associated pneumonia (HAP) and VAP (Ventilator-associated pneumonia)
- CVC-related blood stream infection
- Surgical site infections and antibiotic prophylaxis concepts
- C.difficile infection
| Reference books | |||||
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Moroni M, Esposito R, Antinori S | Malattie Infettive (Edizione 8) | Edra- Masson | 2014 | 882143690X | |
frequency based fairness
Dates and time: 25 February 2019; 4, 11, 18, 25 March 2019 at 17:00
Location: UOC Infectious Diseases Library - South Building "G.B. Rossi " Hospital
Recommended year: 5th, 6th
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