(NOTE: Included here are the lesson plans that were used to teach this four-week-long lab stream. If you would like any of the instructional materials that were used, or if you have any questions about any aspect of the stream and its implementation, please contact one of the authors).
Active MRSA surveillance identifies the reservoir of asymptomatic carriers, enabling early implementation of contact precautions and decolonisation, which can reduce transmission.
Only a timely application of antiviral drugs (even with limited supplies) and a quick implementation of contact reduction measures will notably protract the peak of the epidemic and substantially reduce its height in a pandemic influenza wave.
Patients in this medical-surgical ICU continued to acquire the outbreak organism despite review of routine practices, hand hygiene education and auditing, screening to identify colonized patients, and implementation of contact precautions for colonized and infected patients.
Effective measures for containing these outbreaks have been reported, including the reinforcement of hand-hygiene, staff training, active surveillance, aggressive implementation of contact isolation, cohorting, decolonization and antibiotic stewardship [ 4- 6].
Wound care hygiene was improved through implementation of contact precautions following the 'Basic personal hygiene policy' and all waste after wound care had to be put directly into plastic waste disposal bags.
A timely application of antiviral drugs combined with a quick implementation of contact reduction measures is required to substantially protract the peak of the epidemic and reduce its height.
The 18 horses were allocated randomly and no differences in the implementation of contact position could be detected between rider A and rider B. Both, the group of dressage horses (n = 8) and the group of show jumpers (n = 8), contained horses from the lower competition level as well as horses which were successful in competitions up to the highest level.
