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IPs today must be willing to learn, willing to change, become tech-savvy, and demonstrate their programs save lives and dollars.
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Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as those common in staph and enterococci strains are increasingly the cause of infection, prolonged illness and death among a large patient population, The Joint Commission emphasizes in a new report aimed at health care senior leaders.
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Though many infection preventionists are inundated with data reporting requirements and are having difficulty maintaining routine surveillance activities, health care administrators are reluctant to provide them with "data mining" software, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) reports.
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Perhaps no American in medicine is more synonymous with hand hygiene than Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC, associate dean for research at the Columbia School of Nursing in New York City. Larson has authored scores of papers on the cardinal principle of infection prevention.
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Recent outbreaks of hepatitis C are a wake-up call to boost infection control practices, particularly in outpatient settings. But they also underscore the prevalence of HCV and the continued occupational risk to health care workers.
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The Centers for Disease Control continues to reassess its infection control guidelines for pandemic influenza A H1N1, but has held to a controversial N95 respirator recommendation due to the possibility of airborne spread that would make standard surgical masks ineffective, said Michael Bell, MD, associate director for Infection Control in the CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
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Acute pancreatitis was described by surgeon Berkely Moynihan in 1925 as " the most terrible of all calamities that occur in connection with the abdominal viscera." Although our understanding and management of this condition has progressed considerably since then, this description remains apt at least for the most advanced and complex cases of severe acute pancreatitis.
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Investigators at the University of Utah hospital carried out a comprehensive observational study of alarms that sounded in the medical ICU.
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The infection control technique of contact precautions is intended to prevent the spread of pathogens by airborne, droplet, or contact transmission.
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