ARTICLE REVIEW

Article Review

Article Review

In this report, we will be analyzing two different articles in regrds with the field of medicine. The first one deals with patient hygiene and the second one deals with patient research and its methods.

Title of Article 1: Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force

Abstract

In this article, the guidelines for hand hygiene in healthcare are discussed and evaluated, by reviewing data related to hand washing and hand antisepsis in medical care. Moreover, specific recommendations have been provided for the promotion of improved hand hygiene activities and for the reduction of pathogenic micro-organism to the patient and healthcare professionals. This report studies the researches published from 1985-1995. This study also put forward recommendations related to problems.

Introduction

Hands are one of the main ways of interacting with the environment. Just think how many things you touch every day, doors, tables, food, pets. Hundreds or thousands of other people have also repeatedly touched the subject, and most of them probably were not sterile hands. People with colds or sore throat many times relate to their mouth or nose, moving the infectious agents on hand. Thus, they transmit infectious bacteria or viruses on the surface of all the objects that they touch during the day. Then we go after and collect germs left by them with his own hands, which then touch their eyes, nose or mouth, and soon themselves become infected. When cooking, we can carve raw meat and then make a salad, shifting this way the bacteria E. coli in lettuce and potentially infecting their entire family. Chef or restaurant serverovschik with hepatitis can pass the virus to dozens of customers if this or that do not comply with the necessary rules of hygiene.

Health workers need to be well aware of hand hygiene; it is one of the main rules that ensure patient safety. Hospitals and clinics seem to be the source of proliferation of zero potential infections. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers should wash their hands before and after contact with the patient, but because of the many contacts throughout the day, this rule can be easily broken. While patients are most susceptible to infectious agents, visitors can also how to bring them together and take away with them from the hospital. Actually contain hands clean is quite simple, the most difficult - do not forget to do it. Disinfectant lotions and gels containing alcohol are effective in killing bacteria and viruses, but they work best when you remove the invisible dirt. Visible dirt should be washed off with water only.

Involves the use of handwashing soap, but not antibacterial. For greater effectiveness of antibacterial soap, hand wash to continue for 10 minutes, brush the same way as does the surgeon before the operation. But we need not sterile, but just clear skin. There is a strong confirmation that the use of antibacterial soap leads to the development of resistance to antiseptics, ...