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Volume 5, Issue 7 (Suppl)

J Infect Dis Ther, an open access journal

ISSN: 2332-0877

Infection Prevention 2017

December 14-15, 2017

December 14-15, 2017 | Rome, Italy

World Congress on

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Hospital infections and epidemiology

Mehak zahira

IIUI, Pakistan

he terrible statistics about hospital acquired infections point out the necessity of improving the infection control in health

care facilities. This implies that it is necessary to search for new methods and techniques of design. The aim of this paper is

to describe all knownmeasures of the infection control and to consider a new approach in its optimizing the use CFDmodeling.

The CFD modeling possibilities are demonstrated by an analysis of one factor impact on the infection risk. The analyzed factor

is the use of local exhaust unit in the airborne infectious isolation room. The report includes the detailed description of all

steps of the simulation: collection of the initial data, the modeling process, setting the solver and analysis of the results. The

results of the simulation allow estimating the impact of the analyzed factor and giving certain recommendations for the design

of airborne infectious isolation rooms. Everyone suppose that hospital is the place, where we recover from a disease. However,

there is a high risk to acquire a serious infection instead of recovery. The term nosocomial infection or hospital acquired

infection (HAI) is used when a patient gets infected in hospital. Hospital is a place of concentration of infection and the main

aim of designers and administration is to isolate and prevent the spread of the infection to protect patients. Unfortunately, the

statistics shows that this aim is not fully achieved. Because of the collection and processing of the statistical data, provided in

the Appendix A, the estimated morbidity associated with HAI for US and EU together is about 6 million per year, and the

mortality is about 300.000 per year. This terrible statistic reveals the importance of the problem of nosocomial infections and

suggests the necessity of a concerted approach to solutions of specialists from different fields: architects, engineers, health

workers. However, the theoretical justification is followed by detailed description of all steps of simulation: collection of the

initial data, the modeled process description, creation of the model, setting the solver and analysis of the results. The results of

the simulation not only allow showing the power of CFD, but also allow giving a certain recommendation.

J Infect Dis Ther 2017, 5:7(Suppl)

DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-036