Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – December 1, 2016
December 1, 2016
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CDC Calls for Massive Patient Notification on Heater-Coolers
The CDC is alerting hospitals that hundreds of thousands of open-heart surgery patients may be at risk of slow-growing infections caused by heater-cooler devices that were intrinsically contaminated during production.
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CDC Q&A for Hospitals Notifying Patients About Heater-Cooler Device
The CDC recently issued the following answers to common questions about notifying cardiac surgical patients potentially exposed to contaminated heater-cooler devices.
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A Bold New Day for Infection Prevention in LTC
The CMS has finalized its new infection control regulations for long-term care, revising a few areas in response to comments while implementing landmark changes to protect increasingly vulnerable resident populations.
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IPs Target HAI Reduction Goals for 2020
Although considerable progress has been made in reducing targeted healthcare-associated infections, the Department of Health and Human Services has set a new baseline and established ambitious new goals for 2020.
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‘Clean It Like You Mean It’ Improves Quality, Reduces Costs
A nursing-led program designed to get clinicians to follow best practices at a New York City hospital has significantly reduced the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in neonatal, pediatric, and pediatric cardiac intensive care settings.
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Emerging Candida auris Infects 13 in U.S.
Four patients have died and nine others were infected as the 13 cases of a drug resistant strain of Candida auris that is emerging globally have been reported in the United States by the CDC.1