Preventing Hospital Acquired Infection in the Veterinary ICU

This course will help attendees understand the challenges in preventing hospital acquired infections in the veterinary ICU, ER and all parts of the veterinary hospital. Attendees will learn the various types and prevention of hospital acquired infections, such as blood stream infections, catheter associated urinary infections, surgical site infections, and others. Attendees will understand hand hygiene and fomite infection spread. The course will go over CDC statistics and tactics to prevent infection spread utilized in medical hospitals, and ways those can be applied to veterinary hospitals.