Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
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Provider-to-patient HBV transmission raises issue of chronically infected health workers
A recently reported case of hepatitis B virus transmission from a chronically infected surgeon to as many as eight patients underscores the need for providers to know their HBV status and seek the counsel of an expert review panel if they perform invasive or so called exposure-prone procedures, public health officials emphasize. -
CDC: HBV carriers pose little threat if managed
Some foreign-born medical and dental students with chronic hepatitis B virus are being subjected to Draconian policies or rejected from schools and institutions, though in most cases they can be managed with very little threat to patient safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. -
CDC recommendations for providers with HBV
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for chronically HBV-infected health-care providers and students include the following key measures: -
APIC ‘grows’ one of their own with 2013 president
Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, director of Infection Prevention and Quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, TX, has been elected the 2013 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). -
Union sues to stop RI flu shot mandate
The toughest flu vaccine mandate in the country faces a legal challenge from the nations largest union representing health care workers. -
Contact precautions and a paradoxical question
Past research has linked contact precautions with adverse health events like patients developing delirium, increased risk of falls, or pressure ulcers.