Comité sur les infections nosocomiales du Québec

Membres du comité

Boissonneault, Karine
Desmarteau, Natasha
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale

Bégin, Nathalie
Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de la Montérégie-Centre

Doualla-Bell, Florence
Fafard, Judith
Roger, Michel
Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec

Dubreuil, Bruno
Institut de cardiologie de Montréal

Dufour, Kevin
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

Dufresne, Catherine
Centre hospitalier de l’Université Laval

Frenette, Charles
Centre universitaire de santé McGill

Roy, Marie-Claude
Thibeault, Roseline
Trépanier, Pascale
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec - Université Laval

Caron, Stéphane
Grenier, Dominique
Hudson, Patricia
Massicotte, Josée
Villeneuve, Jasmin
Direction des risques biologiques et de la santé au travail

Longtin, Yves
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal

Moisan, Danielle
Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux du Bas-St-Laurent

Paquet-Bolduc, Bianka
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec

Pominville, Sara
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Estrie

McMurray, Zeke
Perna, Silvana
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec

Savard, Noémie
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal

Savard, Patrice
Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal

Membres de l’INSPQ participant au CINQ

Anctil, Geneviève
Boulais, Annick
Charest, Josiane
Desjardins, Fanny
Massicotte, Josée
Parisien, Natasha
Direction des risques biologiques et de la santé au travail

Soutien à la planification, programmation et recherche

Richard, Chantal
Direction des risques biologiques et de la santé au travail

Soutien administratif

St-Onge, Murielle
Direction des risques biologiques et de la santé au travail

COVID-19: Infection Prevention and Control Measures for Hemodialysis Units

In the context of the community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the presence of residents of seniors’ residential and long-term care centres (CHSLDs) in hemodialysis clinics, what are the recommendations to apply when managing dialysis users in ambulatory hemodialysis units?

Interim recommendations

Aerosol-Generating Medical Interventions on Suspected and Confirmed Cases of COVID-19

These recommendations apply to aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) carried out on suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases. In contexts of sustained community transmission, a risk assessment must be carried out to determine whether these recommendations shall also apply during AGMPs on individuals who are asymptomatic or have unknown COVID-19 status.

(See Section 4: AGMP management for patients determined to be at no risk of having COVID-19 [ “cold patients”])

A table…

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Operating Room with a Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Case: Interim Recommendations

Note that the information herein is based on the scientific evidence available on the date of this statement. Several questions on operating room setup for suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 have come from these facilities. Below are the measures to implement.

Interim document

Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli (Excluding Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae) in Acute Care Settings in Québec

Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) are bacteria frequently encountered in clinical settings, both as normal flora and as pathogens in a variety of infections.

The use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of various resistance mechanisms and some of these bacteria are now resistant to several classes of antibiotics.

This document was created to help healthcare-associated infection prevention and control (IPC) teams identify major multidrug-resistant. Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-…

Professional practice guidelines

Prevention and control measures for Clostridium difficile in residential and long-term care facilities

Since August 2004, Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) has undergone ongoing surveillance in all Quebec hospitals with more than 1,000 admissions annually. The surveillance has monitored the evolution of CDAD levels in health care facilities and confirmed their decrease. From an average of 9.1 cases/10,000 patient days in 2005-2006, the average rate has dropped to 4.6 cases/10,000 patient days in 2016-2017 (SPIN, 2017). Clostridium difficile (C. difficile…
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Prevention and control measures for Candida auris in health care facilities

Candida auris is an emerging microorganism that belongs to the yeast category. Increasingly, it is being found as a pathogen causing nosocomial fungal infections. First identified in Japan in 2009 in a sample from a patient’s auditory canal (Satoh et al., 2009; ECDC, 2016; Rock, 2017), it has since been identified in up to 17 countries, spread across at least 5 continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas (CDC, 2017a; Schwartz and Hammond, 2017). C. auris…
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Interim Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and other Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in Long-term Care Settings

In 2010, the Comité sur les infections nosocomiales du Québec (CINQ) [Québec healthcare-associated infections committee] released its guidelines for preventing and controlling transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, and then more recently, in 2015, its measures to prevent and control transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) in acute care settings.

The application of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in long-term care…

Professional practice guidelines

Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in Acute Care Settings in Québec

Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) are bacteria frequently encountered in clinical settings, both as normal flora and as pathogens in a variety of infections. The use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of various resistance mechanisms and some of these bacteria are now resistant to several classes of antibiotics. This document has been prepared to help healthcare-associated infection prevention and control (IPC) teams recognize the major multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) and…

Professional practice guidelines

Guide for the Management of Outbreaks of Clostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea (CDAD) in Hospitals

Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of healthcare-associated infectious diarrhea in adults, affecting 0.3–2% of hospitalized patients. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, risk factors, diagnosis and management of cases of Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea (CDAD) were the subject of a previous publication. The incidence of CDAD varies widely across and within institutions.

In 2003, a marked increase was observed in the incidence,…

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Ebola Virus Disease: Prevention and Control Measures for Hospitals - Update september 2014

An outbreak of Ebola virus disease has been ongoing in West Africa since March 2014. It is the largest outbreak known to date. Although low, the threat of importing Ebola virus disease cannot be excluded. Ebola Virus Disease has a fatality rate of 50% to 90%.

This fact sheet sets out the recommendations of the Comité sur les infections nosocomiales du Québec (CINQ) for Ebola virus disease prevention and control measures for Québec hospitals. Notwithstanding the transmission…

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