MICI 4218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Occupational Safety And Health, White Coat, Socioeconomic Status
12 May 2021
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Mici 4218 lecture 11 january 29, 2021 infection prevention and control. Introduce the history of infection control and its principles: understand the current climate of resistant organisms. Introduce ipac (infection prevention and control) practices to prevent infection. John snow (1815-1858: pioneer of anaesthesia and epidemiology, broad street pump cholera outbreak, soho, london (1854) Ipac"s purpose is to recognize communicable diseases and stop them from spreading: 700 deaths linked to contaminated pump, commercial water intake on river thames linked to illness. John snow determined that people who were sick were from particular household from one side of the street than the other and these people all took their water from a water supply that was contaminated with stool. Ignaz semmelweis: hungarian physician, drastically cut incidence of puerperal fever/childbed fever. Semmelweis found that there was some correlation between dirty hands and clothes with patient morbidity and mortality. He is known as the grandfather of hand washing and hand hygiene.
