SURVEILLANCE AND PREVENTION OF HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS - SEPTEMBER 2010

This work is the third edition of the French national guidelines following the 1992 and 1999 issues. The work has been conducted by the SF2H on behalf of the French Health Ministry and the Higher Council for Public Health. The recommendations of the National Health Service (UK) were used as a model for constructing the drafting methodology. At the end, 170 recommendations have been released by the expert panel to cover as far as possible the whole topic of HAI control.

CROSS-CONTAMINATION PREVENTION :
ADDITIONAL CONTACT PRECAUTIONS - APRIL 2009

On behalf of the French Technical Committee for Nosocomial Infections, the SFHH performed a wide formal expert consensus leading to these national guidelines. How and when implementing contact precautions? Could standard precautions alone be enough? What are the targeted bugs and how to screen them? This is the French “point de vue”.

PREVENTION OF PERIPHERAL VENOUS CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS - NOVEMBER 2005

Though it lasted from 2005, the French society for hospital hygiene decided to translate its guidelines for clinical practice focused on peripheral venous catheter-related infections. Despite a wide daily use, peripheral venous catheter is rarely the main target of prevention guidelines may be due to some lack of scientific data. It appears to us important to share at the international level, the vision of the French experts and the choices they made.