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Dear All
May I enquire as to the practices of other hospitals regarding the screening of patients under 16 years of age, transferred from other healthcare facilities including long-term residential care facilities.
At present we screen for MRSA only, no perianal screening.
Any thoughts and comments gratefully accepted.
Kind Regards
Andrea Menzies
RN | Infection Prevention and Control | Health Directorate
Building 10, Level 4 | The Canberra Hospital | Garran ACT 2605The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land the Ngunnawal people and pay my respects to the elders both past and present . I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
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Hi Andrea,
Currently I screen any child who comes into our facility under these circumstances:
– Transfer from any overseas hospital
– Location where there is a known MRO outbreak
– Recent (in the past 12 months) overnight admission to an overseas hospital or residence in a long term care facility
– Admission (expected to be greater than 4 hours) to ICU and discharge from ICU
– Transfer from other facilities in NSW with a known MRO outbreak
– Transfer from a NICU with known prevalence or MRO outbreak
– Prior to solid organ donation
Specimens required:
MRSA nose and perianal and wound, any transcutaneous exit sites, throat
C diff faeces
VRE rectal swab (can do perianal or faecal specimen), urine
MRAB rectal (can do perianal or faecal specimen), urine, sputum
CPE (CRE) – rectal swab (can do perianal or faecal specimen), urineThis is very similar to the proposed NSW Health Infection Prevention and Control Practice Guidelines that are just about to be released.
It can be difficult to capture those children who meet these criteria as I dont always know if a child has been an inpatient in an overseas hospital or residential facility in the last 12 months.
You might not always know where there is a prevalence of MROs in other facilities and NICUs.
But I do it with the information I have at hand or can find out.Hope that helps.
Terri Cripps | Clinical Nurse Consultant – Infection Prevention and Control | SCHN Medical Diagnostics and HIV/Immunology
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Subject: screening of inter-hospital patients under 16 years [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]Dear All
May I enquire as to the practices of other hospitals regarding the screening of patients under 16 years of age, transferred from other healthcare facilities including long-term residential care facilities.
At present we screen for MRSA only, no perianal screening.
Any thoughts and comments gratefully accepted.
Kind Regards
Andrea Menzies
RN | Infection Prevention and Control | Health Directorate
Building 10, Level 4 | The Canberra Hospital | Garran ACT 2605
Phone: (02) 6244 2512 | Fax: (02) 6244 4646 | Email Andrea.Menzies@act.gov.auThe very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land the Ngunnawal people and pay my respects to the elders both past and present . I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
[http://www.education.monash.edu.au/indigenous-ed/images/aboriginal-flag.gif][http://www.education.monash.edu.au/indigenous-ed/images/torres-strait-islander-flag.gif]Care | Excellence | Collaboration | Integrity
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