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I've been doing this since January 1990 and in many ways it seems like yesterday. When I share this information with others I can't decide if their body language and comments are motivated by shock or they are simply impressed with someone surviving that long. Most days I don't ask for clarification.
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Health care remains in the spotlight of an energized U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration as the agency explores new regulations related to infectious diseases and requirements for injury and illness prevention programs.
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Faced with a critical federal report on the lack of progress against healthcare associated infections, the nation's leading infection prevention groups find themselves in the thankless position of having to challenge the methodology of the report without appearing to be in denial about HAIs.
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Infection control interventions appear to be making a difference against central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), which have declined 18% nationally in a recent data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Commentary: There are approximately 16,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) and > 29,000 solid-organ transplants performed in the United States each year.
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Difficult intubations are usually the result of a difficult airway, sometimes anticipated and sometimes not.
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This study sought to determine whether the coagulo-pathy associated with chronic liver disease specifically the elevated International Normalized Ratio (INR) frequently present in patients with advanced disease is protective against venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized patients.
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Peterson and colleagues at rush university medical Center carried out an observational study of ICU patients' oral nutritional intake in the 7 days following extubation after mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure.