Operation of the infectious diseases department

By operation, the infection department differs from others. In addition to medical care, it also provides isolation.

• Isolation measures must prevent disease transmission between patients and staff and it must prevent it from "escaping outside".
• Building layout as the first prerequisite.

The box system proves to be the most efficient - single to triple rooms with their own sanitary facilities, the infectious part and the non-infectious part must be separated, sanitary filters, equipment for the disposal of infectious material.

• Operating rules – separate storage for civilian and operational clothing, passage through a filter, protective equipment, hand washing, ban on eating and drinking, ...

Admission of patients

• Patients who are hospitalized (according to regulations):
  1. patients with an infection that is subject to mandatory isolation regardless of the severity of the symptoms;
  2. patients who are not required but have a severe course of infection;
  3. patients whose illness is subject to a different clinic but have an infection;
  4. patients with unclear diagnosis with suspected infectious etiology.

Placement of patients

1. more crietria should be taken into account compared to other wards;
2. we divide patients mainly according to the type of infection;
3. important to consider the stage of the disease

Discharge of patients

• We dismiss according to these principles, where hospitalization is not mandatory, we follow the state of health, for diseases with compulsory hospitalization - after a given period of isolation, with regard to the state of health, when the values ​​of certain tests fall, before discharge - the patient takes a bath, wears civilian clothes and since then he no longer enters the wards.

Visits

• Visitors are not allowed, exceptions put on a face mask and scrubs.

Links

Source

• BENEŠ, Jiří. Studijní materiály [online]. [cit. 2009]. <http://jirben.wz.cz>.

Used literature

• LOBOVSKÁ, Alena. Infekční nemoci. 1. edition. Praha : Karolinum, 2001. 263 pp. ISBN 80-246-0116-8.