Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018

• CDC to CRE: You Cannot Pass

  A national containment strategy using powerful lab detection techniques and rapid intervention with infection control measures is blunting the emergence of pan-resistant pathogens, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

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• CDC Detects 221 Bugs with Unusual Drug Resistance

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using its nationwide Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network to detect these virtually untreatable bugs, which can be resistant to whole classes of drugs.

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• IPs Respond to CMS Legionella Directive

  Primarily caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1, Legionnaires' Disease outbreaks in healthcare are typically traced to the waterborne bug becoming aerosolized and inhaled in shower mist.

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• Dialysis: Overcoming Resistance and Reducing Infections

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates some 40,000 central line-associated bloodstream infections occur annually in U.S. hemodialysis patients.

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• APIC, SHEA: IC Critical to Antibiotic Stewardship

  The nation’s leading infection control associations have reaffirmed their contention that infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists are critical to the success of antibiotic stewardship efforts.

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