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NSAIDs and cardiovascular risk; new antithrombotic guidelines; warfarin during surgery; Pfizer selling Viagra online; azithromycin and cardiovascular risk; and FDA actions.
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a stroke syndrome, defined as rapidly developing neurological dysfunction and/or headache because of bleeding into the subarachnoid space (the space between the subarachnoid membrane and the pia mater of the brain or spinal cord), which is not caused by trauma.1 It is a dire condition with high morbidity and mortality.
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Despite better compliance with hand hygiene and screening, use of isolation, and other techniques, ICUs remain notorious breeding grounds for hospital-acquired infections. A universal decolonization strategy reduces the total number of ICU bloodborne infections.
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A recently published study by investigators led by Clostridium difficile expert Dale Gerding, MD, found that soap and water hand washing widely recommended to remove the spore-forming pathogen is surprisingly ineffective.
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Dr. Baron is a stockholder for Cepheid, and Immunogenetics, is Director of Medical Affairs for Cepheid, and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for OpGen, Immunogenetics, and NanoMR. She is co-founder of the Diagnostic Microbiology Development Program (www.dmdp.org), a non-profit organization that does laboratory capacity building in the developing world.
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The dramatic reduction of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in hospitals in the United Kingdom is putting considerable pressure on American infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists to follow suit with similar success.
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Despite increased infection prevention efforts in many hospitals, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains a persistent threat to patient safety, according to a new survey of infection preventionists by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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What if HIV had been detected in the small human populations where it first appeared, African bushmeat hunters who were likely infected with the novel retrovirus decades before it struck the United States and spread globally in the 1980s? How many of the 25 million people who have died of AIDS would have remained uninfected because the virus had been identified by scientists in the field?
