Healthcare workers are the front liners in war against COVID 19 pandemic. Since this fight against the pandemic started, thousands of heath care workers have been infected with many paying the ultimate price with their lives in a bid to provide health care service to COVID 19 patients. Currently many are either in quarantine or in isolation. Still many are working with fear of virus and in under poor conditions without adequate protections. The potential for high exposure is generally higher in health care workers due to increased hospitalization, longer time exposure, failure to implement effective personal health protection, lack of training, monitoring of infection control protection mechanism. This has led to shortage of workforce in the health sector. Exposure to COVID 19 in the health care setting depends on the health care worker’s understanding of the infectious nature of the virus, the routes by which the virus is acquired, the techniques that are most hazardous and the safe working environment and practice. This work is therefore aimed at providing relevant information on the risk of exposure, the impact of virus on the health care workers and the required bio safety measures needed to keep the workers safe in the organization. Broad Academic area of work: Service Quality Excellence in Health care Keywords-: PPE (Personal protective equipments), BMW (Bio medical waste), donning and doffing (process of using and discarding PPEs), HCW (Health care workers), Nosocomial infection (Hospital acquired infection), Covid 19.
The WHO has set Defined Daily Dose which represent the average daily dose of an antibiotic in a standard patient. The DDD mainly focuses on population-based parameters & assumes that patients as well as hospitals are homogenous entities. DOTs are very useful in order to classify antibiotic days based on patient-level exposure. DOTs merely mean the number of days that a patient is on an antibiotic, irrespective of dose. DOTs signifies that the underlying assumptions about antibiotic dosing was appropriate. Additionally, when patients receive more than one antibiotic, supplementary DOT may be counted. The 300-bed tertiary care medical center serves adults and paediatrics. An all-time Microbiology Consultant and a Clinical Pharmacology trainee used to go for round daily and used to collect data for ASP for the period of 3 months that is April to June,2021. In this study we have compared DOT of some important antibiotics for a specific period of time for both COVID and NON COVID patient. ASP-focused antibiotics were antibiotics routinely evaluated by the ASP team for appropriateness during therapy and the potential to optimize their appropriate use through policies, protocols, formulary restrictions, or clinician education. ASP-focused antibiotics included meropenem, linezolid, pip-taz, poly b, colistin, teicoplanin. In this study we have compared the DDD for 2 specific period of time for better understanding the consumption of those antibiotics. In conclusion, following the initiation of an ASP, significant decreases in utilization, increases in cost savings occurred. In our study we have reduced the consumption and DDD of linezolid which is clinically significant. When it comes to DOTs; We have reduced the DOTs of piptaz and teicoplanin for covid patient And Reduced the DOTs of meropenem and teicoplanin for noncovid patient which is clinically and statistically significant.
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