A Case of a EDH

This is a case of EDH in a case of patient who had a fall from height of around 10feet.

Urgent Neurological evaluatiom was sorted.

NUTRITION IN COVID-19: A GUIDELINE BASED APPROACH

 

Nutrition in COVID-19 a Guideline and Practice Based Approach from Subha Deep

COVID-19 Vaccine Training for Health Workers

 WHO (World Health Organization) Vaccinator (COVID-19) Vaccinator Training

COVID-19 Vaccine Training for Health Workers

Steps of Hand Washing

Handwashing is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick. Handwashing alone can reduce 2/3 of spreading the illness.
You may get confused as different international and national bodies recommend various steps ranging from 5-9 for Handwashing!

Here we are discussing the steps of Handwashing recommended by:
World Health Organization (W.H.O.)

This has ideal basic 6 steps
1. Palm to palm
2. Palm to dorsum with interlaced fingers
3. Palm to palm with interlaced fingers
4. Backs of fingers to opposing palm, with fingers interlaced
5. Rotational rubbing of the thumb and wrist, with the palm of the other hand.
6. Tip of fingers in rotational motion

Pic Source: https://www.who.int/gpsc/clean_hands_protection/en/

The evidence for clean hands

The problem

Each year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). Although HCAI is the most frequent adverse event in health care, its true global burden remains unknown because of the difficulty in gathering reliable data. Understanding and assessing the global burden of HCAI is one of the key areas of work of the Clean Care is Safer Care program. Systematic reviews of the literature have been conducted to identify published studies from both developed and developing countries and highlight the magnitude of the HCAI problem. The results of these reviews were published online on 10 December 2010 in The Lancet, and are compiled in a comprehensive WHO Report on the burden of endemic healthcare-associated infection worldwide.

5-Moments of Hand Hygiene

5-Moments of Hand Hygiene

Hand hygiene is one of the most important practices to be done in all Healthcare Wards. There are certain guidelines from WHO which must be practiced in all ICU and Hospital Wards.
The following picture from the WHO (World Health Organization) emphasizes the important five moments/timings when you should not forget to practice Hand Hygiene (Hand-Wash/Hand-Sanitization) in a proper way.

So the 5-Moments of Handhygiene are:
1. Before touching the patient 
2. Before cleaning/aseptic procedure
3. After body-fluid exposure risk
4. After touching a patient
5. After touching patient surroundings. (You have to remember that patient surroundings do not contain a Nursing Station in general, and they generally mean patient Beds, trolleys, beddings, patient rack etc.)

The COVID PANDEMIC TIMELINE from WHO