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As of April 23, 2003, 4288 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 25 countries had been reported to the World Health Organization. In the United States, there were 245 cases of SARS in 37 states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its interim case definition for SARS on April 20, 2003.
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The Brugada syndrome is a recently described cardiac disorder involving patients with structurally normal hearts who lack coronary artery disease and experience ventricular dysrhythmias.
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from an older man on multiple medications. Which cardiac drug do you most strongly suspect he is taking?
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Despite use of full-barrier precautions, Canadian health care workers treating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients for prolonged periods became infected with the emerging virus after minor lapses in infection control, a Toronto epidemiologist tells Hospital Infection Control.
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The first recognized transmission of West Nile virus by organ transplantation and an unusual hepatitis C outbreak in organ recipients were both recently described in Washington, DC, at the annual conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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Rather than merely isolating patients with known infections, infection control professionals should screen patients aggressively for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), according to new guidelines by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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A glaring infection control violation and an unusual genotype of hepatitis C virus were key findings in what may be the largest reported HCV outbreak in an outpatient setting.
