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FDA: Hospitals Could Face Shortages of Sterile Supplies
The emission of ethylene oxide from sterilization facilities into surrounding communities has raised cancer concerns, warnings, and closures that threaten the critical flow of sterile supplies in healthcare, the FDA reports. Infection preventionists should keep communication channels open with central sterile supply and other key colleagues to ensure spot shortages of equipment do not pose a threat to patient safety.
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Meeting the Challenge of Sterilizing Duodenoscopes
Infection preventionists and central sterile supply technicians must work together to protect patients from duodenoscopes that could remain contaminated after reprocessing. That is the take-home message from a comprehensive program that shows it can be done.
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Workers Working Sick: Are Your Patients Safe?
Unfortunately, "working while sick" has historically been an all-too-common practice in healthcare, endangering patients and other healthcare staff. The fact that this trend continues unabated recently led to a call for action on presenteeism by infection control advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Infection Prevention and Cardiac Implants: Sometimes, More Is Less
The authors found that many common “interventions are ineffective, and that the simplest strategies (those designed to limit bleeding risk and avoid implantations in patients with active infections) have the strongest potential to improve CIED infection outcomes.” -
Researchers Show Understaffing Translates to Infections
Understaffing of registered nurses for two consecutive work shifts showed a statistically significant increase in healthcare-associated infections, researchers report in a new study. -
Waterborne Bugs: Common Routes of Transmission
The CDC reported on its consultations related to "potential or confirmed transmission of water-related organisms in healthcare." -
IPs Key to Preventing Waterborne Infections
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expands its focus on waterborne pathogens, infection preventionists are viewed as having a critical role in their facilities’ water management plans. -
FDA: 5% of Duodenoscopes Still Contaminated After Reprocessing
In reporting continuing problems disinfecting complex duodenoscopes, FDA officials recently sought input from an infection control advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They received it in no uncertain terms.