Original Research Article
Year: 2018 | Month: December | Volume: 5 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 337-341
Impact of NABH Guidelines on Incidence of Hospital Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Unit of a 500 Bedded Tertiary Care Hospital
Dr Shakti Datt Sharma1, Dr. Rajender Kumar2, Dr Vineet Popli3
1MD, CMO (SAG) & Quality Head, Department of Anesthesia & Intensive care, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College & Hospital, New Delhi, India
2DA, DNB (Anaesth), MBA (HCA) Sr. Specialist & In-Charge ICU, Department of Anesthesia & Intensive care, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College & Hospital, New Delhi, India.
3DCH, DNB (Paediatrics), CMO (SAG), Department of Paediatrics, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College & Hospital, New Delhi, India
Corresponding Author: Dr Vineet Popli
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Hospital-acquired infections cause the length of stay in hospital, morbidity, mortality, and increase the cost of treatment. Aim of this study is to find out impact of NABH guidelines on the incident of hospital acquired infections in intensive care unit of a 500 bedded tertiary care hospital.
Method: All the ICU health care workers were trained in NABH guidelines for hospital acquired infections. An initial evaluation and a monthly re-evaluation of infection control care- bundle-practice and its documentation was done by infection control team.
Results: Incident rate of ventilator associated pneumonia reduced from 40 to 5.5, central line associated blood stream infection incident rate reduced from 46 to zero and catheter related urinary tract infection also significantly dropped from 21 to 3.3 after implementation of NABH guidelines.
Conclusion: Implementation of NABH guidelines significantly reduces the incident rate of HAI.
Key words: NABH guidelines, Hospital acquired infection, Ventilator associated pneumonia
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