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Mr. Jackson is 86 years old. He is admitted to HUMC for congested heart failure. He also has a history of renal failure and goes for dialysis on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday. He has an AV fistula in his right hand. He also has a history of diabetes, hypertension and depression.

He is allergic to shrimp. He is a nonsmoker. He lives with his wife and two sons.

He is on a renal, low sodium, low cholesterol diet.

He is positive for clostridium difficile.

He suffered a stroke while he was in the hospital and now has left sided weakness.

2. What measures will be taken to maintain medical asepsis and prevent infection while he is in your care?

Answer 1

2.Medical asepsis is the state of being free from disease causing microorganisms. Medical asepsis is concerned with eliminating the spread of microorganisms through facility practices..

there are four chief aspects of the aseptic technique: barriers, patient equipment and preparation, environmental controls, and contact guidelines. Each plays an important role in infection prevention during a medical procedure..

Medical asepsis also referred to as a clean technique, is the infection control principle and practice that decreases the spread of infection. Medical asepsis reduces the number of pathogenic microorganisms and it also impairs the proliferation and growth of microorganisms.Hand hygiene compliance is the most important aspect in reducing cross-infection of microorganisms.Isolation precautions are an example of medical asepsis; the client, the client's environment, and the health care providers are protected from contamination or reinfection by medical aseptic techniques. Medical asepsis is one of the two types of asepsis; surgical asepsis is the other.

Contact Precautions .of clostridium difficile.

Use gloves and gown when entering patients' rooms and during patient care. Remove PPE and perform hand hygiene when exiting the room.

Change gloves and gowns and perform hand hygiene when moving from one patient to another when patients are cohorted, and before leaving patient room.

Washing with soap and water is the only way to prevent the spread from person to person. Remember: you can come in contact with C. diff germs—and even carry them on, or in, your body—and not get sick..

You can have visitors. They will be asked to wash their hands with soap and water before and after visiting you so that they do not pick up the germ or spread it to others. Healthy people are at very little risk of developing C. diff diarrhoea..