Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections

Written by the world's foremost leaders in the field of nosocomial infections, Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections, 7th Edition, is a must-have text for preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) in all inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings. This comprehensive volume provides up-to-date, authoritative coverage on all aspects of this vital topic, with editor Dr. William R. Jarvis leading a team of notable contributors from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as additional authors who provide an international perspective on HAIs. The newly revised and expanded seventh edition continues to be an invaluable resource for anyone working in infection prevention and control, quality assurance or risk management in healthcare settings.

• Provides evidence-based strategies for the prevention of the big four HAIs—CLABSIs, CAUTIs, SSIs, and VAE.
• Contains a new comprehensive chapter on Coronaviruses, including COVID-19.
• Expanded new chapters on antimicrobial stewardship, HAI prevention in community hospitals and hospitals in resource-limited settings, the inanimate environment, disinfection and sterilization, and prevention of fungal infections and infections in burn patients.
• Contains a new comprehensive chapter on the Prevention of infections and other complications associated with Peripheral Intravenous Devices.
• Covers the latest prevention strategies through coverage of automated room terminal disinfection (ultraviolet germicidal irradiation or hydrogen peroxide gas or vapor).
• Includes the latest evidence-based data on the control of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, such as carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, Clostridioides difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, and Candida auris.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contributors

Preface

Contents

SECTION I: General Considerations of Hospital Infections

1 Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections

2 The Healthcare Epidemiologist

3 Hand Hygiene

4 Occupational Infection Prevention and Control Services

5 The Development of Infection Prevention and Surveillance Programs

6 Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections

7 Comparison of Methods Used by Partners of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance to Conduct Prevalence Surveys of Healthcare-Associated Infections

8 Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections

9 Epidemiologic Methods for Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting

10 The Role of the Laboratory in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

11 The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals

12 The Role of Professional, Governmental, and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Prevention and Control

13 Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use

14 Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Epidemiology and Control

15 Molecular Biology of Resistance: A Brief History of Resistance Mechanisms and the Discovery of Gene Transfer

16 Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions

17 Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control of Healthcare-Acquired Infections in Limited-Resource Settings

SECTION II: Functional Areas of Concern

18 The Inanimate Environment

19 Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities

20 Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities

21 Clinical Laboratory—Acquired Infections

22 Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control

23 The Intensive Care Unit: Antibiotic Resistance and Prevention of Central Venous Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and Clostridioides difficile

24 The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

25 The Perioperative Suite

26 Ambulatory Care Settings

27 Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities

SECTION III: Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections

28 Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections

29 Urinary Tract Infections

30 Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

31 Nosocomial Tuberculosis

32 Infectious Gastroenteritis

33 Central Nervous System Infections

34 Surgical Site Infection: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Risk Factors and Evidence-Based Interventional Strategies

35 Burn Wound Infection and Sepsis in the Patient With Burns

36 Infections due to Infusion Therapy

37 Infections of Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices

38 Infections in Skeletal Prostheses and Allografts

39 The Importance of Infection Control Measures in Controlling Multidrug-Resistant Organisms

40 Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections

41 Preventing the Transmission of Blood-Borne Pathogens in the Healthcare Setting

42 Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections

43 Healthcare-Associated Infections in Transplant Recipients

44 Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections

45 Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates

46 Patient Safety

47 Peripheral Venous Catheters

48 The Coronaviruses-SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Index