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Oral Tebipenem: A New Antibiotic for Multidrug-Resistant, Gram-Negative Complicated Urinary Tract Infections
A randomized clinical trial that compared oral tebipenem with intravenous ertapenem in patients with complicated urinary tract infection or acute pyelonephritis found tebipenem to be noninferior in efficacy. The safety profile was similar between the two drugs.
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International Outbreak of Acute Hepatitis in Children — Putative Role of Adenovirus 41
Cases of acute hepatitis in children, tentatively ascribed to adenovirus 41 infection, while first reported from a single hospital in Alabama, are being seen internationally.
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Report: Pregnancy-Related Hypertensive Disorders Doubled in 12 Years
An estimated one in five births in the United States are affected by various adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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Is a Healthcare Infection a Medical Error? Nurse Conviction Roils Patient Safety
Over the last two decades, there has been a tectonic shift of the perception that healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) were an inevitable consequence of invasive care to the radical notion that most infections actually are preventable. This has raised the question, at least in some cases, of whether failure to prevent an HAI is indeed a medical error. This discussion no longer is academic.
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Unexplained Pediatric Hepatitis Cases Detected Globally
As of May 5, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was investigating 109 children with hepatitis of unknown origin across 25 states and territories. More than half of them have tested positive for adenovirus.
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Joint Commission Surveys in the Time of COVID-19
How far is The Joint Commission behind on healthcare accreditation surveys? By the end of June 2022, they expect to be caught up with scheduled inspections — for 2021. However, the accrediting body for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is gamely moving forward, using virtual technology for some facilities, and conducting on-site inspections at hospitals.
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Bad to the Bone: Huge TB Outbreak Traced to One Donor
A massive Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak spread to 81 bone tissue recipients in 20 states, leading to multiple patient deaths and 73 latent infections in healthcare workers, investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.
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OSHA Urged to Break with CDC in Finalizing COVID-19 Regulation
Despite pleas for flexibility by infection control groups, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is being urged by one of its more prominent former directors to adopt a tough standard that emphasizes airborne precautions to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19.
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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is a common cause of presentation to the emergency department. There is a wide array of clinical presentations and causes of LGIB. This article will focus mainly on acute LGIB, including small bowel bleeding, in the adult patient.
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Major Traumatic Brain Injury Can Raise Dementia Risk
Patients with brain bleeding and a long hospital stay were 1.5 times more likely to develop dementia compared to those with no injury.