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Why are veterinarians had a higher risk for infection?
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vet med has no formal standardized infection control practice
lack of education/awareness or rogue careless behavior |
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Can high risk behaviors be identified?
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Due to random selection with in different types of practice by survey
Results were on hand hygiene Sharps control appropriate Personal Protective Equipment |
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What are the results of the survey of identifying risks?
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Veterinarians reported concerns about contracting zoonotic illnesses yet did not take precautions to protect themselves
Hand washing is inconsistent sharps handling was a big problem |
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What do we need to do to utilize standard preventive infection control practices to minimize the risk of occupational zoonotic infections from recognized and unrecognized sources?
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do it regardless of the diagnosis
do it regardless of the presumed risk of infection Whenever contacting feces, body fluids, exudates, blood or non-intact skin. |
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Why is hand hygiene important?
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reduce the risk of disease transmission
was before and after each patient after contact with feces, blood, body fluids, exudates or articles contaminated by these substances after cleaning cages before food and after using the bathroom use soap that mechanically removes soil and reduces the number of transient organisms on the skin used moist wipes when water is not available then used a alcohol based hand rub |
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When should you wear gloves and when should you change them?
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When touching feces, blood, body fluids, dentistry, venipuncture, cleaning cages, soft tissue aspiration, handling laundry and diagnostic specimens.
Change gloves between individual or groups of animals between dirty and clean procedure performed on the same patients whenever torn |
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When should you wear facial protection?
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using masks, googles or a face shield
use them on dentistry abscesses Suctioning, lavage OB Necropsy |
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What is are the most commonly reported injury in vets?
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cat and dog bites and needle sticks
inadvertent injection of a vaccine most common needle stick injury |
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How do you prevent needle stick injuries?
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don't remove from the syrige by hand
do not cap by mouth avoid recapping use forceps or the top of the sharps container |
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How do you prevent bites and trauma?
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do not allow people to hold their own pets
consistently use muzzles cat bags, drugs or whatever it takes to prevent bites eliminate a common culture among veterinary techs that they should put themselves at risk to prevent veterinarians from being bitten |
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How did you used disinfections?
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need to choose the right disinfectant for the job and use it correctly
Surfaces must be cleaned before disinfection |
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What are environmental controls?
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designate staff break areas that are separate from animal care areas
use separate refrigerators for human food, animal food and biologics clean and store dishware for humans away from animal care use storage and transport bins for clean and dirty laundry |
