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Infection control professionals had a median salary in the $50,000-$59,000 bracket, but budget-crunched hospitals held most ICPs to raises at l% to 3%, according to the 2002 salary survey by Hospital Infection Control.
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In response to strong protests from infection control professionals, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has dropped plans to reduce the number of infection control standards in 2004, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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A new survey of various health care providers who give medications through injections reveals that 3% of anesthesiologists admit reusing the same needles and syringes on multiple patients, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
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Continuing her high-profile presence in infection control, Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasizes that the CDCs landmark new hand hygiene guidelines are now the de facto standard of care for the nations health care settings.
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Though controversial due to fears of rising antibiotic resistance, it appears that minute amounts of vancomycin in heparin lock solutions can dramatically reduce deadly bloodstream infections in neonates under intensive care, a leading researcher has found.
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Few infection control professionals in any country can top the tale of a hospital in Western Australia that set up a war cabinet and took drastic measures after vancomycin-resistant enterococci breeched the hospital walls.
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Banished into regulatory oblivion, a 150-page proposed federal tuberculosis standard to protect health care workers may be officially tossed in the paper recycle bin in the near future.
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An outbreak of eight cases of necrotizing enterocolitis occurred over a two-month period in a Canadian neonatal intensive care unit.
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The increasing use of catheters for hemodialysis care is spurring a rise in infections and antibiotic resistant pathogens, health care epidemiologists reported recently in San Diego at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
