Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care)
Contributors: H.K.F. van Saene (Editor); L. Silvestri (Editor); M.A. de la Cal (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9783540750437
Subjects: Accident & emergency medicine; Infectious & contagious diseases; Medical microbiology & virology; Public health & preventive medicine; Nosocomial infections; Infectious Diseases; Preventive Medicine; Intensive Care Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Epidemiology; Infection; Medical / Critical Care; carriage; Critical Care; Prevention; Critical care medicine; Infection Control; Intensive care units
First sentence: The patient's carrier state is considered to be abnormal when the same enter-obacterial or pseudomonal strain is isolated from at least two consecutive surveillance samples (saliva, gastric fluid, faeces) in any concentration over a period of at least 1 week (in practice, the throat and/or rectal swabs taken twice weekly yield identical micro-organism).