Preventing post-operative infection

1. Infection Control Policies
2. Protecting ICU Patients From Nosocomial Infections
3. Nursing Strategies to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
4. Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)
5. Central line infections
1. Guidelines for Prevention of Intravascular Device-related Infection from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)
2. Complications of long term central venous access catheters: infection, occlusion, extravasation Meditheses
6. Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)
7. US government Centers for Disease Control Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force Prepared by John M. Boyce, M.D.1, Didier Pittet, M.D.2, 1Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut, 2University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, The material in this report originated in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, James M. Hughes, M.D., Director; and the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Steve Solomon, M.D., Acting Director.

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