Outbreak Investigation- 🔎How to Investigate An Outbreak Using 10 Steps🔎

Outbreak Investigation- 🔎How to Investigate An Outbreak Using 10 Steps🔎 Hello everyone today we will learn the steps of the outbreak investigation, it is very important to know what an outbreak is and how to investigate it so that timely control measures can be implemented. Let’s first define outbreak, when there are clearly excess cases of illness than generally expected in that population in a given area in a specific time it is an outbreak. The terms epidemic and outbreak are often used interchangeably. How do we know the occurrence of the outbreak? There are different ways through which we may come to know the existence of an outbreak. The routine surveillance, which includes active surveillance- collecting health information actively, passive surveillance- observing routine data and sentinel surveillance- where selected groups or institutions provide health data. IDSP- integrated disease surveillance system or through a variety of other sources of information like news, social media or even rumors. Once we decide to investigate an outbreak we have to do it in a few systematic steps. The number of steps order and content can vary and several steps can be done simultaneously. But in essence, an outbreak investigation consists of confirming whether it is there, describing it, determining its cause, and implementing the control measures so that it doesn’t spread further or happen again. Visit https://psmsurat.com for more information Chapter 00:00 -Introduction to outbreak investigation 00:48 -Overview of Outbreak Investigation 01:05 -Definition of an Outbreak 01:26 -Existence of an Outbreak 01:55 -Steps an Outbreak Investigation 02:30 -Confirm an outbreak occurrence 03:05 -Verify the Diagnosis 03:27 -Describe an outbreak 03:49 -Case definition 04:15 -finding cases 04:29 -Time in Time, Place & Person Distributions 05:35 -Place in Time Place & Person Distributions 05:53 -Person in Time Place & Person Distributions 06:14 -Generating Hypothesis 07:09 -Analytical studies to investigate an Outbreak 07:27 -Environmental & laboratory investigation in outbreak investigation 08:03 -Control of an outbreak 09:15 -Active surveillance 09:25 -Communication in outbreak investigation 10:25 -Declaring that the outbreak is over 10:54 -Covid-19 pandemic: lesson learned #outbreak #epidemicinvestigation #investigationofepidemic #stepsofinvestigationofepidemic