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المستخلص
Respiratory tract infections represent significant proportion of hospital acquired infections. About 15-20% of all hospital acquired infections are of the lower respiratory tracts which are the leading causes of mortality. Pulmonary ventilation or instrumentation may lead to nosocomial pneumonia.The primary risk factor for the development of hospital associated bacterial pneumonia is mechanical ventilation, which is often associated with a dramatic increase in length of hospital stay and total hospital costs. This study aims to assess infection control measures for patient caring on mechanichal ventilation. The study was conducted in the respiratory intensive care unit at Ain Shams University Hospitals on convenient sample of 60 nurses and physicians caring for patient on mechanical ventilation were recruited for the purpose of the study. Three tools were used, nursing assesment sheet, pretest to assess infection control practice and rating scale questionnaire to assess attitude of nurses and physicians included in the study. The highest percent of correct nurse’s knowledge was for hand washing between patients, before and after patients care, infection control measures with Intensive Care Unite patient on ventilator, higher percentage (100%) was in preventive methods during patient care of isolation. The best physician knowladge for prevention was for patient isolation while worst knowladge was in care during ryle nutrition, routes of ventilator contamination. There was highly significance regarding unit preparation, routine daily cleaning, unit disinfection. Also there is statistical significant relation between nurse’s knowledge regarding infection control measures for patient on mechanical ventilation and their performance. This leads to a conclusion that the majority of nurses and physicians performance about infection control measures for patient caring on mechanical ventilation were unsatisfactory. It was recommended that health care workers should be trained in the field of infection control and the nurses apply nursing principles for prevention and early detection of ventilator associated pneumonia as an integral part of their role.