Clean Room & Infection Control: A Sub-Discipline of Contagion Prevention
Infection control is the specialty that is particularly concerned with preventing associated contaminations that may be harmful to humans and other living beings. In many geographical locations, infection prevention is considered as a vital element of public health and its allied concerns. Considered as an indispensable part of the substructure of health care it is analogous to public health practice that is consistently directed towards the society as a whole. While discussing infection control, factors associated to the spread of infections, it may span among patients, patients to staff, sometimes staff to patients and among staff. Preventive measures to check this kinds of infection spread, involves frequent washing of hands, cleaning and disinfecting of furniture like beds, chairs, tables, linen and other properties. Likewise, sterilizing the apparatus and devices, vaccinating the healthy individuals so that they do not catch up the infection are some methods of infec