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Shortage of influenza vaccine may continue into the 2005-2006 influenza season. As of late February, it was unclear whether Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, CA, would be able to resolve manufacturing problems in time to produce influenza vaccine by next fall. Chiron was one of the two major suppliers of flu vaccine in the United States.
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This years flu vaccine shortage failed to budge the nations health care workers from their typically dismal rate of vaccination. About 43% of health care workers with direct patient care responsibilities received the vaccine, which is similar to that of prior years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.
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Epidemiology; Laboratory Diagnosis/Testing; Clinical Findings; Treatment/Prophylaxis; Prevention
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Another vaccine is on the horizon for health care workers this time to protect them and their patients from a troubling resurgence of pertussis, the whooping cough illness that is particularly dangerous for young infants.
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The draft tuberculosis guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked widely ranging comments with divergent opinions from those who think N95 filtering facepiece respirators are inadequate, to those who think they are unnecessary.
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These are the overall rankings of lateral-transfer devices from a study by Andrea Baptiste and John Lloyd of the Patient Safety Center of the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL.
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When a patient needs to be moved from a bed to a stretcher, do your nurses reach across for the draw sheet and pull? If so, theyre at risk for debilitating back injury.
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The national stockpile isnt enough. That is the alarm being sounded by at least two organizations concerned about pandemic influenza preparedness and the stockpile of antiviral medications.
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If pandemic influenza strikes, health care workers with patient contact should be the top priority for vaccination, two federal advisory panels have recommended. Keeping health care workers on the job will be critical if the nations health care system is stressed by a new influenza strain, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) agreed in a July meeting.
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On any given day, depression may be sidelining one in 20 of your workers. They may call in sick, or they may show up but struggle through the day with lower productivity.