Published in 2010, the guide, available in downloadable PDF form, covers topics including:
- prevention measures;
- infection control procedures for anesthesia equipment;
- housekeeping practices and procedures; and
- general principles of infection control for anesthesia systems.
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According to the guide’s introduction, “The concern of healthcare workers, patients, and society at large, and the increased awareness of how serious and fatal infectious diseases may be contracted … prompted the AANA to prepare this guide as a means to help control infection. This guide represents reasonable and accepted practices and procedures currently used to control infection in anesthesia.”
Download the CRNA infection control guide (pdf).
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