HICPAC

Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance. Am J Infect Control 199523(2) 87-94. 

However, because of the possibility of a smallpox attack, albeit remote, in December 2002 President Bush announced his preevent vaccination plan. Instead of mass vaccination, the plan, based on recommendations from the CDC, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) makes smallpox vaccination available for people designated by public health authorities to conduct investigation and follow-up of initial... 

In addition to the smallpox response teams, ACIP and HICPAC have recommended that every acute-care hospital identify and vaccinate a team of health care workers who might provide direct care for the first smallpox patients requiring admission or who might manage suspected case patients in emergency departments. When possible, to reduce the potential for adverse reactions to the vaccine, designated health care workers should be those who previously received smallpox vaccinations. 

In the event of an outbreak, these teams would provide care 24 h d for the first 2 days until additional health care workers receive vaccinations. Until vaccinated, other health care workers would be restricted from caring for patients with smallpox, or under emergency conditions, would be required to wear PPE (32). The ACIP and HICPAC recommend that smallpox health care teams include ... 

Center for Disease Control. Immunization of healthcare workers. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advising Committee (HICPAC). Morb. Mort. Wkly. Rep. 1997, 46, RR-18. 

AJ Mangram, et al. ACDC HICPAC Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999. AJIC 27(2) 97-133, 1999. 

AJ Mangram, et al. CDC HICPAC guideline for prevention of surgical site infection,... 

Rutala, W.A., Weber, D., 2009. Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Conunittee (HICPAC)3. 

CDC guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facUities Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee (HICPAC). MMWR 52(No. RR-10), 2003. 

HICPAC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee... 

Simmons, B. P., 1985. Guideline for handwashing and hospital environmental control, HICPAC-CDC. 

Boyce JM, Pittet D Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2002 23(12 suppl) S3 S40. 

CDC Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control In Health-Care Eacilities Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee (HICPAC), MMWR 2003 52(NO. RR-10). CDC website, NIOSH Alert, Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings, http //www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-165/. 

Risk factor Preventive measure CDC/ HICPAC Kollef category (VAP) ... 

NS = not specified in HICPAC or Kollef guideline COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease G-CSF = granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor CNS = central nervous system NP = nosocomial pneumonia. 

CDC/HICPAC guideline criteria as defined in Table 1. Kollef guidelines as defined in Appendix, p. 80. 

Garner JS, HICPAC. Draft guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Fed Reg 1994 59(part V) 55552-55570. 

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