Comparison of Emergency Management Strategies for Nosocomial Infections Between Two Earthquakes

Abstract

Aim: Based on the experience of the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake and the 8.8 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake, the emergency management strategies for nosocomial infections were compared between the two earthquakes. The experience shared in the present study provides a guideline for the emergency medical rescue of future earthquake. Methods: The patients involved in this study were those injured in the earthquake and admitted to the hospital for treatment. As an earthquake relief center, the hospital participated in the emergency rescue work of the two recent major earthquakes in western China. Review analysis was carried out in the hospital’s infection control experience adopted in the two major earthquakes. It was emphasized that, targeting the characteristics and difficulties in the prevention and control of nosocomial infection, different innovative infection control emergency strategies were adopted by the frontline disaster relief hospitals, under the special circumstances and medical conditions in an earthquake disaster. Results: According to the different focus of infection control in the two earthquakes, different hospital infection control strategies were adopted, and the incidence of nosocomial infections was effectively controlled.