PROPOSED SOLUTION, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

Proposed Solution, Implementation and Evaluation of RSV Prevention

Proposed Solution, Implementation and Evaluation of RSV Prevention

Proposed Solution and Implementation

Problem Statement

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is causing millions of deaths worldwide. It is prevalent in our country, because the current preventive measures are not sufficient to eradicate this epidemic condition. In this paper, we would study the appropriate plan to control the RSV infection.



Proposed Solution

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children and infants. It is the cause of hundreds of neonatal deaths worldwide. There is a need to address this issue at the national and international level. This study would describe the preventive measures and strategies, effective in controlling this epidemic infection. It evaluates the infection control techniques and the role of vaccination in controlling life-threatening RVS infection in infants and children.

Implementation

Outbreaks and transmission of Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection can be managed through various strategies like frequent hand washing, cohorting, breastfeeding and use of gloves. Immunoprophylaxis with palivizumab can decrease the incidence of RSV in normal as well as in high-risk children.

Following are the few preventive measures that must be implemented to prevent the spread of infection.



Hand washing

RSV virus is destroyed by alcohol, detergents and antibacterial soaps. The health-care workers should wash their hands with disinfectant solutions after examining a patient to prevent the spread of disease in other patients. Frequent hand washing removes most of the bacterial and viral pathogens from the skin. Hand washing is the main strategy for prevention of this RSV (Groothuis et. al., 2008).

Gloves and gowns

The gloves and gowns can play an important role in preventing the spread of nosocomial RSV infection especially for the health care workers, working in paediatric ward or NICU (Groothuis et. al., 2008).

Cohorting

The technique of ...