New guidelines provide a simple response to occupational exposure to HIV: Take three anti-retrovirals as soon as possible and re-evaluate after 72 hours.
Imagine having to tell a neurosurgery patient that as a result of their recent procedure they may have been exposed via contaminated surgical instruments to the exceedingly rare but legitimately real risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
A recently published MRSA study showing a universal decolonization approach is more effective than active detection and isolation (ADI) has prompted critical questions from proponents of ADI.
On June 13, 2012, a 60-year-old Saudi man was admitted to a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with severe pneumonia after 7 days of fever and worsening respiratory symptoms.
This observational cohort study was conducted among 1.25 million adults from 4 private US healthcare organizations (HCO): Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania; Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan; Kaiser Permanente-Northwest, Portland, Oregon; Kaiser Permanente, Honolulu, Hawaii. The study included persons who had ≥1 clinical encounter during 2006-2008 and ≥12 months of follow-up before 2009.
Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality.
