AIMC Topic: Infection Control

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Human-machine collaboration using artificial intelligence to enhance the safety of donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE).

Infection control and hospital epidemiology
OBJECTIVES: To compare the accuracy of monitoring personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing process between an artificial intelligent (AI) machine collaborated with remote human buddy support system and an onsite buddy, and to determine...

How does innovative technology impact nursing in infectious diseases and infection control? A scoping review.

Nursing open
AIM: Considering the increasing number of emerging infectious diseases, innovative approaches are strongly in demand. Additionally, research in this field has expanded exponentially. Thus, faced with this diverse information, we aim to clarify key co...

Can Disinfection Robots Reduce the Risk of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Health Care and Educational Settings?

Journal of medical Internet research
We explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of disinfection robots to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in health care and educational settings. Although there is some potential for deploying robots to help with manual cl...

Artificial intelligence-based tools to control healthcare associated infections: A systematic review of the literature.

Journal of infection and public health
BACKGROUND: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the most frequent adverse events in healthcare and a global public health concern. Surveillance is the foundation for effective HAIs prevention and control. Manual surveillance is labor intensiv...

COVID-19: The role of artificial intelligence in empowering the healthcare sector and enhancing social distancing measures during a pandemic.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
Indiscriminatory in its spread, COVID-19 has engulfed communities from all social backgrounds throughout the world. While healthcare professionals work tirelessly testing for the virus and caring for patients, they too have become casualties of the p...

Robotics Utilization for Healthcare Digitization in Global COVID-19 Management.

International journal of environmental research and public health
This paper describes the evolving role of robotics in healthcare and allied areas with special concerns relating to the management and control of the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The prime utilization of such robots is to ...

The damage response framework and infection prevention: From concept to bedside.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Hospital-acquired infections remain a common cause of morbidity and mortality despite advances in infection prevention through use of bundles, environmental cleaning, antimicrobial stewardship, and other best practices. Current prevention strategies ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) use for personal protective equipment training, remediation, and education in health care.

American journal of infection control
BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a first-line transmission-based precaution for reducing the spread of nosocomial infections between health care workers (HCWs), patients, and staff. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a problematic sk...

Harnessing artificial intelligence for infection control and prevention in hospitals: A comprehensive review of current applications, challenges, and future directions.

Saudi medical journal
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) significantly burden global healthcare systems, exacerbated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Traditional infection control measures often lack consistency due to variable human compliance. This comprehensive revie...