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THE BASICS OF INFECTION CONTROL AT DENTAL CLINICS

Enhancing prevention and control measures for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) represents an important challenge for the public health system. HAIs are prevalent complications that impact both patient morbidity and mortality, substantially escalating healthcare costs, despite a significant proportion of them being preventable. The amendment introduced in the Resolution No. 359 of the Government of Georgia of November 22, 2010 "On the Approval of the Technical Regulations of High-Risk Medical Activities" mandates dental service-providing medical institutions to adhere to HAI prevention and control requirements outlined in the regulations, which first and foremost implies personnel training in this regard.

 

The training program aims to educate dental institution staff in the diagnosis, registration, management, supervision, and prevention of infections associated with medical services. It also focuses on planning, implementing, and evaluating measures related to infection prevention and control; the rational use of antimicrobial drugs and methods of antimicrobial prophylaxis, considering global best practices.

Duration: 10 Hours, ( 2 Day)

Day 1

 

I session - 90 minutes

 

  • Open training and pre-test
  • Prevalence of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) - World and Georgian data;
  • HAI spread factors, infection transmission chain;
  • HAI registration, notification;
  • Standard definition, accounting-notification rule, journal production rule;
  • Antimicrobial prophylaxis and therapy, the procedure for drawing up a program of antimicrobial drugs
  • Infection prevention and control program, its preparation procedure.

 

Coffee break

 

II session - 90 minutes

 

  • Hand hygiene - the essence of a multimodal strategy;
  • 5 moments of hand hygiene;
  • Hand hygiene technique, practical exercise;
  • Methods of observation of hand hygiene, WHO control sheet, analysis of results;
  • Review of hand antiseptics;
  • Basic principles of safe injection:
  • Rules for handling injectable material;
  • Rules for handling medicines.
  • Cross-distribution of microorganisms by hand - video

 

III session - 30 minutes

 

  • Standard safety measures in a dental facility, characterization and importance;
  • Characterization of security measures based on transmission routes and their importance

 

IV session - 35 minutes

 

  • General rules for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), selection criteria;
  • Practical exercise:
    • The rule of removing disposable gloves;
    • How to fit and remove a surgical mask;
    • How to fit and remove a respirator;
    • The procedure for processing and storing headlamps and glasses;

 

Day 2

V session - 60 minutes

  • Personnel safety;
  • Damage management;
  • Post-exposure prophylaxis:
  • At the risk of developing hepatitis B;
  • At the risk of developing hepatitis C;
  • At the risk of developing HIV infection;
  • Mandatory immunization of medical staff, epidemic immunization

 

Coffee break

 

VI session - 60 minutes

 

  • Disinfection of dental medical devices, objects, instruments, high-level disinfection and general rules of sterilization, zoning of decontamination space;
  • Stages of pre-sterilization processing;
  • Disinfection levels;
  • Spaulding classification;
  • Drying, packing;
  • Sterilization methods;
  • Rules for storing processed medical items;
  • The procedure for cleaning the aspiration system of the dental chair;
  • Specifications of disinfectants;
  • Storage conditions for sterile instruments.

 

VII session - 65 minutes

 

  • Waste management of a medical institution providing dental services - legal requirements;
  • Classification, segregation, color marking of containers, labeling, practical demonstration of waste generated in a medical institution;
  • Recyclable waste, waste prevention;
  • Mixed waste management;
  • Temporary storage and transportation, electronic reporting and journal production procedure;
  • Importance of waste plan and disposal plan-schedule;
  • Management of various categories of liquid waste spills;
  • Incineration of hazardous waste;
  • The role of the environmental manager.

 

VIII session - 60 minutes

 

  • The importance of cleaning the environment of a medical institution providing dental services, general rules;
  • Major pollutants, cross-contamination;
  • Cleaning methodology, color marking principles;
  • Cleaning frequently touched surfaces;
  • The order of arranging the sanitary space, the specifications of the inventory to be sorted;
  • Chemical means for sorting;
  • Monitoring of the sorting process, cleaning accounting.

 

Post-test and training summary.

  • Beggining: April 13
  • Day 1 - Saturday - April 13 - from 15:00 to 20:00;
  • Day 2 - Sunday - April 14 - from 10:00 to 15:00;
  • Venue: "Rooms Batumi''
  • Address: Batumi, Gogebashvili Street, N10

Fee: - 390 GEL

Registration.