Patient Care in Radiology: Infection Control | Chapter 6.6

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The objectives of this chapter Infection Control are:
1. Describe the four basic infection agents along with their unique characteristics.
2. Discuss factors involved in the spread of disease and the chain of infection.
3. Describe the various sources of nosocomial infection, including prevention.
4. Describe the basics of standard precautions and the related types of transmission-based precautions.

Defense Mechanisms of the Body will be discussed in this chapter:
a) Disease and Infection
b) Types of Pathogens
c) Establishment of Infection Disease
d) Stage of Infection
e) Chain of Infection
f) Routes for Disease Transmission
g) Health Care-Associated Infections
h) Types of Hospital Microbes
i) Defense Mechanisms of the Body
j) Medical and surgical Asepsis
k) Standard Precautions
l) Surgical Procedures
m) Aseptic & Non-Aseptic procedures
n) Mobile and surgical radiography


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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Infection Control
0:17 Main topic Defense Mechanisms of the Body
0:24 Internal and External Defense Mechanism of the Body
2:23 Lines of Defense
4:33 Immunization
5:41 Disinfectants

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