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The California Department of Public Health says Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's handling of high-risk drugs placed its pediatric patients in harms way.
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FDA cleared for marketing BD Diagnostics' GeneOhm StaphSR assay that uses molecular methods to determine whether a blood sample contains Staphylococcus aureus bacterium. It's the first rapid blood test for the drug-resistant MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which can cause deadly infections.
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A chronic inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous system, multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the leading causes of neurologic disability in young and middle-aged adults.
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Most critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, and, according to one large survey, the weaning process occupies about 40% of the time that patients spend connected to the ventilator.
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n this issue: Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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A prospective observational study was conducted to assess diagnostic and therapeutic efficacies of a daily routine CXR and to evaluate the impact of discontinuing this practice. The setting was a 10-bed mixed medical-surgical ICU of a non-academic teaching hospital in The Netherlands.
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Most of the attention on catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSI) in the ICU focuses on central venous catheters (CVC), a bias that likely derives, in part, from the 2002 Centers for Disease Control guidelines which stipulate that arterial catheters (AC) have "low infection ratesrarely associated with bloodstream infections.
