-
In late-onset VAP, survival improved and costs decreased using initial coverage with 3 antibiotics. Mini-BAL did not improve survival but decreased costs and antibiotic usage.
-
-
-
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed the diagnosis of rabies in 4 recipients of transplanted organs and their common donor. All 4 transplant recipients presented with rapidly progressive encephalitis within 21 to 27 days after receiving their transplant and all subsequently died.
-
Seven percent of more than 2,000 hospital admissions to the Division of Infectious Tropical Diseases at the Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, were due to fever in travelers and migrants returning from the tropics. Malaria was the most frequent diagnosis.
-
Mycoplasma pneumoniae may causally contribute to the development of asthma, as well as serve as a trigger for recurrent wheezing.
-
Treponema pallidum strains resistant to azithromycin are prevalent in San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, and Dublin.
-
Saying the risk of infection outweighs the risk of fire, a national fire marshals association has come out in support of the use of alcohol hand rubs in the health care facilities.
-
In a Dear Colleague letter aimed at hospital leaders, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that some electrically powered hospital beds may pose a risk of fire. The letter notes the FDA has received 95 reports of fires involving electrically powered hospital beds since 1993.
-
When a Pennsylvania nurse reported seeing potentially fatal drugs stuffed inside a disposal container for used needles, suspicion centered on one nurse in the cardiac care unit. When confronted with questions about dozens of patient deaths, the nurse refused to answer and instead, quit his job.
