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Nurses' knowledge and use of personal protective equipment in barrier access to infectious patients
Bubíková, Kateřina ; Jirkovský, Daniel (advisor) ; Trojánek, Milan (referee)
1 Abstract The bachelor thesis entitled "Nurses' Knowledge and Use of Personal Protective Equipment in Barrier Approach to Infectious Patients" deals with the prevention of infection transmission in the hospital environment, emphasizes the importance of using personal protective equipment, and addresses the knowledge and habits of nurses providing nursing care to infectious patients in the hospital. Objective: The aim of the thesis was to determine and evaluate the level of nurses' knowledge in the field of prevention and use of personal protective equipment when working with infectious patients. Within this bachelor thesis, another goal was set to gather information on whether respondents with higher education demonstrate more detailed knowledge in the field of infectious control than respondents with secondary education. The sample of respondents was also compared by age and length of practice, where the correlation between these categories and the depth of knowledge was examined. Sample and methods: The survey was conducted through a questionnaire, the comprehensibility of which was previously verified by a pilot study. Data collection took place at two university hospitals in Prague, at FN Motol and FN Bulovka. The research sample consisted of 163 respondents, 115 respondents from FN Motol and 48 from...
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Clinical and epidemiological features of the most commonly imported febrile illnesses and preventive measures
Trojánek, Milan ; Marešová, Vilma (advisor) ; Rožnovský, Luděk (referee) ; Chlíbek, Roman (referee)
The objective of the presented thesis was to evaluate epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the most significant tropical febrile infections imported to the Czech Republic, which include dengue and chikungunya fever, malaria and enteric fever. This retrospective-prospective study included a total of 292 patients with fever after a stay in the tropics who were treated at the Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropical Diseases of Hospital Na Bulovce in the years 2006-2014. The most common illnesses were dengue fever (52.1%), followed by malaria (37.3%), enteric fever (6.2%) and chikungunya fever (4.4%). Dengue fever was imported in 88.2% cases from Southeast or South Asia and malaria in 63.3% from Sub-Saharan Africa. Typical clinical and laboratory findings in dengue fever included headache (72.4%), rash (71.7%), muscle (67.6%) and joint pain (62.1%), leukocytopenia (26.5%), thrombocytopenia (22.4%), and low CRP (57.1%). Presented study confirmed that laboratory parameters differ in the acute and early convalescent phase of dengue fever. A total of 62.7% patients with malaria reported hedache and other frequent symptoms were dyspepsia (45.1%), dehydration (30.4%) and tachycardia (28.4%). Laboratory findings included high CRP (71.4%), decreased platelet count (52.4%) and...
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