APIC 2021 Infection Prevention Considerations for Critical Care: Picking Up the Pandemic Pieces Webinar
Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA
This webinar, originally presented at the virtual Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) 2021 conference will discuss how certain Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) rates increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the critical care units and which infection prevention considerations could be implemented to bring them back down.
Objectives
- Identify the impact that COVID 19 has had on healthcare-associated infection (HAI) rates in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
- State the potential contributing factors to these increased HAI rates.
- Propose infection prevention interventions to mitigate the increased HAI rates.
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