[In terms of infection control team(ICT)]

We think it is important to make up a medical team for the infection control in the hospital since patients admitted often turn to compromised hosts who possessed the high risk to provoke the possible transmission of nosocomial infections. Infection control team(ICT) under the infection control committee(ICC) was established in our Yamagata University Hospital at the 1994 April. Members of the ICT are composed of staffs at various sections: physicians, pharmacists, nurses, clinical laboratory staffs, a neutrionist and administration office staffs, with the aim of preventing the nosocomial infections. Twenty three staffs of ICT who are specialist at each section have practiced the round of wards, leading in hand-washing, checking of the proper use of antibiotics and disinfectants, making and revising of the infection control manual, follow-up of the route of infection, and a countermeasure of prevention for needle pad accidents, etc. Furthermore, ICT has exerted all possible efforts of various investigations for infections when it is necessary. Problems that are faced our ICT are the construction of a network an inter-net among clinical divisions, nursing, pharmacy and clinical laboratory, and a system of the centralized management is actualized thereby.