Standard precautions in practice

When pathogens suddenly appear in healthcare facilities, livestock farming or food processing plants, effective hygiene protocols for infection...

The name KARMIN (acronym for "hospital architecture, cleaning, material and infection") signifies a research project that sets new standards for the patient room of the future...

Basic hygiene measures continue to be the basis for avoiding nosocomial infections. The COVID-19 pandemic has once again clearly demonstrated how important these are...

Hand hygiene is the key measure of standard precautions. In addition to alcohol-based hand disinfection, the main infection protection measure, it comprises skin care, skin protection and skin cleansing...

The personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a major role in worker protection, for instance when treating patients with transmissible diseases...

FFP stands for “filtering face piece”. The FFP protection classes are a system to classify the filter capacity of face masks and are determined according to the European EN 149 standard using a NaCl test aerosol with an average particle diameter...

Since June 2020, hygiene specialists and other interested parties have been able to download the newly designed and more comprehensive IHO list of disinfectants published by the...

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