Articles Tagged With: infection
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Prevent the Bug, Save the Drug:
Once largely consigned to separate silos, infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship are starting to show signs of a powerful partnership. The CDC’s most recent update on the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria emphasizes that drug stewardship and infection control must essentially be inseparable if they are going to be successful.
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Monthly Vaginal Ring Helps Protect Women Against HIV
A vaginal ring containing the antiretroviral drug dapivirine helps prevent HIV-1 infection in women. -
TJC, CDC collaborate on infection prevention project
The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are collaborating on an initiative to disseminate CDC guidance related to infection prevention and control in ambulatory settings.
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AAAHC has new standard requiring written risk assessment for infection control
Beginning this year, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has a new standard (7.I.B.) requiring a written risk assessment in infection control. The risk assessment becomes the basis for the infection control program for the facility, according to Marcia Patrick, MSN, RN, CIC, surveyor for ambulatory care at AAAHC.
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Save money on infection control resources
As part of Same-Day Surgery’s special cost-saving issue, AHC Media, SDS publisher, is offering a one-time savings on three AHC Media products.
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Patients alarmed after newborns exposed to TB
A California hospital continues a high-stakes tuberculosis follow-up of more than 350 newborns exposed to an infected healthcare worker. With testing reliability questionable in such infants, the babies are essentially being treated empirically with isoniazid for a TB strain that is susceptible to the first line drug.
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Change is the constant: Can IPs turn challenge into opportunity?
Infection preventionists are still struggling to raise their profile and funding for their programs, many of which received no additional support last year during an unprecedented Ebola crisis in the U.S.
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The do’s and don’ts of using masks and N95s
With all the post-Ebola emphasis on personal protective equipment, there’s no time like the present to review the proper use and wear of masks and respirators. -
Parents of 350 babies warned of possible TB transmission from infected worker
As patient notifications of potential exposures to infectious disease go, it doesn’t get much worse than telling parents their newborn baby may be in danger.
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Are novel flu vaccines an answer for high-risk patients?
Amid ongoing efforts to get 90% of healthcare workers immunized against seasonal flu by 2020, researchers are seeking to boost the immunity of high-risk patients to protect them from serious and even fatal flu infections in the hospital and the community.