Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-- Associated Pneumonia, 2003 Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
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...Recommendations to reduce the risk of pneumonia are limited in this document to key, modifiable risk factors related to the pathogenesis of pneumonia to avoid redundancy with the more comprehensive Guidelines for Preventing Health-care–associated Pneumonia, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (3)....
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...HAP and VAP are a frequent cause of nosocomial infection that is associated with a higher crude mortality than other hospital-acquired infections (Level II) (3, 9, 16)....
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...Detailed strategies for prevention of Legionella infections and eradication procedures for Legionella species in cooling towers and the hospital water supply are outlined in the CDC/HICPAC Guidelines for Preventing Health-care–associated Pneumonia (3)....
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...VAP refers to pneumonia that arises more than 48–72 hours after endotracheal intubation (2, 3)....
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...HAP is usually caused by bacteria, is currently the second most common nosocomial infection in the United States, and is associated with high mortality and morbidity (3)....
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...HCT centers should follow published guidelines for hospital isolation practices, including CDC guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated infections (AIII) [144,534,571]....
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...Equipment and devices should be cleaned, disinfected or sterilized, and maintained as directed by established guidelines (AIII) [532,534,539,582-586]....
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...HCT center maintenance personnel should prevent birds from nesting near hospital air-intake ducts (AII) [531,534,544,545]....
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...These barriers (eg, sealed drywall) should be impermeable to Aspergillus spores [531,534,549,552,555]....
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...Although exposure to plants and flowers has not conclusively caused invasive mold infections among HCT recipients, most experts recommend that plants and dried or fresh flowers should not be allowed in hospital rooms during conditioning or after HCT (phases I-III of immune system recovery) because Aspergillus species have been isolated from the soil of potted ornamental plants (eg, cacti), the surface of dried flower arrangements, and fresh flowers (DIII) [533,534,547,592]....
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