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A simulated outbreak – Case Scenarios
This document outlines the processes for investigating acute infectious disease outbreaks in hospital settings, emphasizing the importance of identifying and eliminating sources of infection to prevent additional cases. It details definitions related to outbreaks, steps for investigation, and case scenarios related to a specific outbreak of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. The document also highlights the role of microbiology labs, criteria for identifying outbreaks, and recommended infection control measures.
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- #5 There are many definitions of outbreak but this is from APIC book Causes of pseudo-outbreak will be discussed in the following slides
- #6 Epidemic curve is used in outbreak investigation
- #7 We will start with this qs
- #9 It is better to devide the causes according to
- #12 We will go through these steps while discussing the cases
- #14 The story started with this case They repeated screening multiple times
- #16 What do you notice regarding the strain
- #22 This is the importance of micro lab in outbreak investigation. Suspect possible outbreak if you notice recurrent isolation of same strain of any micro-organisms
- #24 Now we will go through the steps in theory and apply it in our cases. In our cases as we said, acintobacter baumannii was identify it in patients having multiple co-morbidites, bed ridden and on devices. Pseudo-outbreak has been roled out
- #26 This is the KFHU data of hospital acquired MRAB The thershold or benchmark is 1.2% (rate/1000 patients)
- #28 This is in details the case definition
- #40 They thought that devices are the main source of infection in our cases so
- #52 How we implement and evaluate control measures? by
- #54 I couldn’t get the written report from the IC