IPAC Part 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+

IPAC Part 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+ What is the IPAC Canada Definition for IPC? - Answers The discipline concerned with preventing health care associated infections What is the WHO definition for IPAC ? - Answers Practical evidence based approach to prevent patients and healthcare workers from being harmed by unavoidable infections What are the three principle goals of IPC? - Answers 1: protect the patient 2: protect the healthcare provider, visitor and others in the healthcare environment 3: accomplish previous two goals in a cost effective manner What are the four basic elements of an IPAC program? - Answers 1. Obtain and manage critical information, data and surveillance for infections 2. Develop and recommend policies and procedures 3. Intervene directly to prevent infections and interrupt the transmission of infectious diseases 4. Educate and train HCP, patients, and non medical caregivers What are the three components of the AHS IPC? - Answers 1. Standards and surveillance 2. IPC 3. Hand hygiene What is a community acquired infection? - Answers Infection acquired before a patient was admitted to hospital or other health care facility What is a healthcare associated infection? - Answers Infection acquired during the process of care in a healthcare facility which was not present or incubating at the time of admission Infection occurring in a patient that can be attributed to a specific healthcare facility What are symptoms of HAIs? - Answers Unusual discharge, fever, chills and sweats, redness and swelling, diarrhea, pain How much more do patients with infections cost than patients without infections? - Answers 3X more monies!!! What is the definition of surveillance? - Answers The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of health data closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those who need it What are the critical elements and methods of surveillance for HAIs? - Answers Surveillance planning — data collection — Analysis — interpretation — communication — evaluation What is the purpose of surveillance planning? - Answers 1. Assess the population to be surveyed 2. Select the outcomes for surveillance 3. Use established case definitions for infeciton What is the order for chain of transmission? - Answers 1. Infectious agent 2. Reservoir 3. Portal of Exit 4. Modes of transmission 5. Portal of entry 6. Susceptible host What criteria must skin infections meet? - Answers 1. Patient has either: purulent discharge, pustules, vesicles, boils 2. Patient has at least two of the following localized signs: pain *or tenderness*, swelling*, erythema*, or heat* AND A. Organisms identified from aspirate or drainage from affected site by a culture or non-culture based testing method. Identification of 2 or more common commensalism organisms/ B. Multinucleated giant cells on microscopic examination of affected tissue C. Diagnostic IgM or IgG test for organism What criteria must deep incisional SSI meet? - Answers 1. Date of event occurs within 30 to 90 days after the operative procedure (day 1 = procedure date) 2. Involves deep soft tissues of the incision 3. Patient has at least one of the following: A. Purulent drainage from the deep incision B. Deep incision that spontaneously dehiscence, or is deliberately opened or aspirated by a surgeon, physician AND Organisms identified from the deep soft tissues of the incision by a culture or non culture based microbiological testing method C. An abscess or other evidence of infection involving the deep incision that is detected on gross anatomical or histopathologic exam