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The aftermath of one undiagnosed case of Cruztfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) was so traumatizing across the board that a hospital decided to adopt extremely rigorous sterilization procedures on a permanent basis.
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Empowering patients by educating them to ask their caregivers to wash their hands can dramatically improve compliance, an infection control professional reported recently in Washington, DC, at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.1
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has besieged hospitals in Toronto, spreading from patients to health care workers and now threatening to emerge independently in a community where 9,000 people already are under quarantine.
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Health care workers who are currently rolling up their sleeves for smallpox vaccine should skip the local blood drives for a while, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises.
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Admittedly distracted by bioterrorism, public health officials are marshalling their forces to do battle with an old foe before it gets completely out of its cage. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is in the news too much for anyones good, spreading through communities and mutating into full-blown vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA).
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OK. Time for a pop quiz. Heres the scenario: While obtaining a peripheral venous blood sample from a patient with the AIDS virus, a 35-year-old phlebotomist is injured by a bloody 18-gauge needle attached to a syringe.
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Health care workers who are currently rolling up their sleeves for smallpox vaccine should skip the local blood drives for a while, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises.