Hosptial Infection Control Committee
Frequency
HIC COMMITTEE:- Meet once in a month. Depending upon the availability of the hall meeting will be organized.
- Meet once in a month. Depending upon the availability of the hall meeting will be organized.
Members
| S.No | Name of Member | Designation | Committee Responsibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dr.LtCol. A Ravikumar | Honourable Pro-Vice Chancellor | Ex-Officio Member |
| 2. | Dr.Nitin M Nagarkar | Dean | Chairperson |
| 3. | Dr.Venkatraman R | Medical Superintendent | Co-Chairperson |
| 4. | Dr.K.V.Leela | Professor & HOD -Microbiology | Hospital infection control officer |
| 5. | Dr.J.Manonmoney | Associate professor-Microbiology | Coordinator / Convener |
| 6. | Dr. Gokulakrishnan C | Resident Medical Officer Assistant Professor Anesthesiology | Member |
| 6. | Dr. Muthu Bharathi. S | Administrative Medical Officer Senior Resident Dermatology | Member |
| 7. | Ms. Arockiamary | Hospital Infection Control Nurse | Member |
| 8. | Dr.Kumar J.S | Professor & HOD - General Medicine | Member |
| 9. | Dr.Anuradha.M | Professor & HOD – OBG | Member |
| 10. | Dr.Vijayanand | Professor & HOD - Orthopedics | Member |
| 11. | Dr.B.Gayathri | Professor & HOD - Anaesthesiology | Member |
| 12. | Dr. Saravanan | Professor-Anaesthesiology | Member |
| 13. | Dr.Thinagaran K | Professor & HOD – General Surgery | Member |
| 14. | Dr.Swarnalingam T | Professor & HOD Critical Care Unit | Member |
| 15. | Dr.Meenakshi Sundari | Professor – General Medicine | Member |
| 16. | Dr.Vimal Raj | Professor - Paediatrics | Member |
| 17. | Dr. Ashok Sampath | Assistant Professor Cardiac Anesthetist | Member |
| 18. | Mr.Mohanarokiyasamy.S | Assistant General Manager – CLM | Member |
| 19. | Ms.Kavitha | Chief Nursing Officer | Member |
| 20. | Ms. Catherine S Priyadharsini K | Nursing superintendent | Member |
| 21. | Ms.Asha Jebajeyam | Nursing superintendent | Member |
| 22. | Ms.C.Jothi | Infection Control Nurse | Member |
| 23. | Ms.Sangeetha | Infection Control Nurse | Member |
| 24. | Ms.Lakshmi sona | Senior Manager- QCM | Member |
Quorum
Meeting is conducted depending upon the availability of committee members minimum 65 percentage of members should take part in the meeting. Less than 65 percentage meeting will be reorganized on later date.
Terms of Reference
Communication is sent individually to all committee members through the Chairperson or coordinator of committee one day before the meeting.
Role of Committee
- Prepare Institutional infection control manual.
- Prepare and review antibiotic policy periodically and coordinate action on findings from the medical staff's review of the clinical use of antibiotics.
- Provide awareness on infection control policies and procedures and their responsibilities in surveillance, prevention and control.
- Maintaining surveillance data and identify areas for intervention over the hospital infection control program. Surveillance strategies shall be evaluated for their effectiveness throughout the hospital.
- Prepare and develop a system for reporting, identifying and analyzing the incidence and cause of all infections including outbreaks.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of any reagents, used for cleaning, disinfection and carbolisation in the hospital.
- Induction training for all new employees on Hospital infection control
- Assess and promote improved practice at all levels of the health facility.
- Ensure appropriate staff training in infection control and safety management and training of health care workers.
Role Of Antimicrobial Management Team
- To develop a hospital antimicrobial policy.
- To monitor the implementation of the antibiotic policy
- Receiving feedback, assessing outcome and discussing with clinician.
- Conducting a revision of the policy every year based on the experience fo prescribers and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles.
- Setting audit targets
- Antimicrobial dos and regimen alteration
- Streamlining and sequential therapy
- Discontinuation of antimicrobials
- Advice on and as a result of therapeutic drug monitoring
- Automatic stop orders for antimicrobial prophylaxis
- Restricted antimicrobials
- Empirical antimicrobials
- Approval of restricted antibiotics
- Assistance in interpretation of laboratory results
- Indication for use of specific antimicrobials
- Suggestion for ordering additional laboratory testing and formal.
