Intensive Care Unit
Infection Controls
- Our infection control protocols pertain to a wide spectrum of interventions & have been developed jointly with intensivists & anesthetists
- ICUs – high risk areas for patient where lifethreatening mistakes & omissions in care can occur
- Checklist of care should be addressed daily
- Critically ill patients highly vulnerable to health care associated infection, resulting in significant morbidity & prolonged length of hospital stay
- Reponsibility of every member of the health care team to ensure compliance with hospital and unit infection control policies – like hand-washing before & after examining a patient; use of alcohol hand rubs; use of sterile barriers & disposable gloves; safe disposal of all sharps & patient consumables; & traffic control
- Bedside Analysis – checklist use has reduced ALOS & improved infection control indices
Clinical Handovers
Standardised procedure for clinical handover
- enhances patient’s safety by providing vital information at a glance to the care providers
- enhances ability of attending staff member to identify potential source of problem
- Transfer of care from physician to physician or nurse to nurse in case of change of location or change of shifts
- Includes accurate information about
- patient’s care
- treatment and services
- verbal order
- test results
- current condition
- recent or anticipated changes