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The Joint Commission and other national infection prevention groups made a point to include catheter-related urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs) traditionally considered a relatively benign adverse event in a recently issued compendium targeting the major health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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In a move that may clear the way for federal legislation aimed at preventing outbreaks of bloodborne diseases in ambulatory care, a broad-based coalition of patient safety advocates and health care groups has launched a national education campaign on needle safety.
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Accurate microbiologic diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is problematic. Infecting organisms reside in a biofilm, and standard culture techniques appear to have suboptimal sensitivity.
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How do you know if your needlestick prevention program is working? A decrease in injuries is a good barometer but sometimes that could reflect a lack of reporting rather than an improvement in safety.
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With more than 25 years experience as a critical care nurse, Barbara Jordan, RN, MSN, CCRN, could read the bleak signs and symptoms of the patient before her like a map to a destination she had been before.
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It is no small sign of hard-earned wisdom that the mother who has lost a loved one to a health care-associated infection (HAI) doesn't want to be cast in angry hues, decrying the failure of a health system that took her 27-year-old son Josh along with some 100,000 other patients felled by infection in 2006.
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Mathematical models (a case reproduction number/stochastic model and a long-term epidemic dynamics/deterministic transmission model) were used to explore the effect of testing for all people 15 or older for HIV and initiating ARV therapy immediately after diagnosis.
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A retrospective study at a tertiary pediatric hospital in Israel of all children with a positive blood or synovial fluid culture for K. kingae during 1996-2006 revealed 62 children with invasive K. kingae infections. Of these, 42 (68%) had positive blood culture results and 20 (32%) had positive synovial fluid cultures. There were no cases of osteomyelitis documented.
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Schistosomiasis is the most important trematode infection worldwide, transmitted to humans through skin contact with infested freshwater.
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Companion animals have been carrying a secret around for years. Maybe that is why my sister's golden retriever is always smiling. Methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci are not exclusively Staphylococcus aureus.
