Patient Safety
INFECTION CONTROL PROTOCOL
Infection is the invasion of an organism’s body tissues by disease causing agents, their multiplication, and reaction of the host tissues to these organisms and toxins they produce.
The protocols which limit the spread of infection include:
- Screening
- Personal Protection
- Antiseptic Technique
- Sterilization & Disinfection
- Waste Disposal
The standard protocols are given by Organizations such as :
- Centre of Disease Control (CDC):
- Guidelines for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
- Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings — 2003
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Hazards
METHODS OF ACHIEVING STERILIZATION
AND DISINFECTION AT KOSMOS
Sterilization and disinfection can be obtained by Physical, chemicals radiations and gases. Popular methods include:
ESSENTIALS FOR STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION
STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION OF INSTRUMENTS USED IN CONSERVATIVE DENTISTRY & ENDODONTICS
ENVIRONMENTAL DISINFECTION
COVID MEASURES
Kosmo Dental Hospital; a Visionary Dental Hospital with cutting-edge infrastructure, dental equipment and dental devices to ensure optimum quality and safety.
1. Inhouse Ambulance
2. Availability of Life saving Emergency Medication
3. Oxygen tanks and Ambulatory masks
4. All the staff are trained in Basic Life Support (BLS), in accordance with the American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines
PHYSICAL HARM
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR ELDERLY ANDPHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Kosmos is a geriatric friendly clinic, all the facilities provided at Kosmos are designed in accordance with its ease of utility by our dearly elderly patient. Some key highlights are as follows
- Provision of Ramps
- Provision of wheelchair
- Ergonomic Dental Chair for Elderly which provides additional lumbar support.
- Geriatric friendly lavatories
- The clinic is brightly lit and devoid of blind corners which might cause any unfortunate trauma.
- Use of Dental models to explain the treatment more effectively to the elderly.
PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY
The records are maintained in physical form with the clinic for a period of 5 years as stated by the DCI rules.
- The records are in paper form for 3 months from the date of completion of treatment.
- Post this period the records are digitized and the paper copies are destroyed.
- The patient records are only available to the patient and the treating physician.
Consent is obtained before starting any treatment the patient is explained in detail about the treatment in a language they are familiar with. Dental treatment involves taking photographs for record keeping and sometimes to make promotional material or awareness creating brochures. If a particular photograph is used for any of the above mentioned purposes, a photographic consent is obtained from the patient The Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Clause prevents the doctors or the clinic from sharing any case record with any other entity before a written permission is given by the patient.
Kosmos is evolving and we make our patient advise the basis of our evolution. The stated safety policies are subjected to scrutiny and amendments at all times. The following mechanism is followed to maintain the highest level of PAtient satisfaction
- Randomly patients are asked to review the safety measure and feedback is obtained from them.
- Every month all the safety policies are reviewed by the management and new policies if required are decided and brought into force in the upcoming cycle.
- The staff has to follow a two strike policy, after which they are liable to imposition of penalties or negative credit which affect their appraisal.
PRESCRIPTION SAFETY
Prescription safety is a practise of carefully prescribing any drug to the patient after determining the need, possible interactions, and associated side effects.
- We at Kosmos Follow these rules during prescribing Determine patients past history with any drug, side effects, known allergies.
- Past medical histories and ongoing drugs with which the prescribed drugs might interact in a damaging manner
- We urge our Patients to complete the course of the antibiotics prescribed, as it might develop unwanted resistance to infections later in life.
- The fresh new prescription is issued if the old prescription is to be renewed.
- No over-writing and corrections are allowed on the prescription.
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