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For Everything There Is a Season – Including SSIs?
While it is way too early to advise patients to have elective surgery in the dead of winter, researchers are unraveling some telling indications that surgical site infections are much more likely to occur in the hottest months of the year.
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The Joint Commission Citing for Sterilization
Hospitals are continuing to run afoul of The Joint Commission accreditation inspectors for equipment that has been improperly sterilized or subjected to insufficient high-level disinfection.
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Think Outside of the [Recessed] Box
A common feature in hemodialysis units – recessed wall boxes to hook up water and other lines – can become a reservoir for pathogens if not subjected to routine cleaning and infection control measures, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigator reports.
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Are You Ready for Next Infectious Disease Event?
IPs and hospital epidemiologists who are not well-positioned within their organization and connected to key collaborators during routine operations will be severely challenged when an infectious disease emergency strikes, warns Stephen Weber, MD, an epidemiologist and chief medical officer at the University of Chicago.
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Heart of Darkness: Ebola Vaccine in Congo
While the world holds its breath, there are signs an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be fading back. However, given the devastation and some 11,000 deaths caused by the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, the last thing the World Health Organization is going to do is take this deadly hemorrhagic fever lightly.
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Feds Issue Call to Action on Legionella Outbreaks
Federal health officials report a striking surge in healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease, with the CMS underscoring the threat by ordering assessments of hospital water systems where the pathogen thrives.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: Effects of weight gain on the cardiovascular system; comparing sleep apnea treatments; and rhabdomyolysis brought on by exercise.
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Edaravone Injection (Radicava)
The FDA has approved edaravone, the first new treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since the approval of riluzole more than 20 years ago.
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is the most common form of viral hepatitis worldwide and often is asymptomatic, but it is commonly associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome and Guillain-Barré variants.
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Treatment of Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalitis Syndrome
Blockade of IL-1 activity with anakinra failed to reduce fatigue in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.