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Infection Control Long Term Care: Hepatitis C Mobile App

The Infection Control Long Term Care: Hepatitis C mobile app contains scientifically based information to improve the assessment of residents. It provides nursing professionals with criteria for identifying specific body-site infections. This enhances the objectivity of reporting signs and symptoms to providers and helps providers make decisions whether or not to culture sites, order other diagnostic tests, and/or prescribe treatment, including antimicrobials. Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver that is caused by the hepatitis C virus. This inflammation can result in serious liver damage. Eighty-five percent of hepatitis C-infected individuals develop chronic hepatitis. Hepatitis C is now the major reason for liver transplantation in the United States. If you let your 30 day trial expire it is the same as cancelling your account.

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What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver that is caused by the hepatitis C virus.
How common is hepatitis C?
Annually, approximately 30,000 Americans will become infected with hepatitis C in the United States.
Each year, up to 8,000 Americans die from complications of hepatitis C.
Who is at risk for hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is transmitted primarily by direct puncture of the skin.
Other risks include:
Blood transfusion prior to 1992
Hemodialysis patients
Practicing high-risk sexual activity (multiple partners history of STDs, co-infected with HIV)
Using non-injection illegal drugs (intranasal cocaine)
Occupational exposure (health care workers)
Tattooing and body piercing with contaminated equipment
Transmission between mother and baby has been documented, although the risk is low, no more than 6%.
What are the symptoms?
Some people have loss of appetite, tiredness, nausea and vomiting, vague stomach pain and jaundic...
How soon do symptoms occur?
Symptoms may occur from two weeks to six months after exposure but usually within 6-9 weeks.
When and for how long is a person able to spread hepatitis C?
A person with hepatitis C is contagious one or two weeks before symptoms appear and during the en...
What are the complications of hepatitis C?
Eighty-five percent (85%) of persons infected with hepatitis C develop chronic hepatitis and rema...
Can hepatitis C be prevented?
There is no vaccine for hepatitis C.
How is hepatitis C diagnosed?
There are tests that can be performed on blood to identify individuals who have the hepatitis C v...
Is there a medical treatment for hepatitis C?
...and More!