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Management of patients with accidental or intentional poisoning in drug overdose is a common problem for the intensivist. The actual incidence of poisoning in the United States is unknown because of lack of adequate reporting, but a minimum of several million cases occur annually. The vast majority of these cases do not require ICU admission.
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This study from the University of Amsterdam reports outcome data on 105 consecutive patients resuscitated from primary cardiac arrest and treated in the ICU with a protocol of induced mild hypothermia.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
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With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) opening preliminary rulemaking on a national infectious disease standard, infection preventionists pondering the end result of the effort may follow the old admonition, "look to California."
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In the increasingly litigious arena of infection prevention, juries are interpreting recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as "mandated" standards of care.
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Like a hurricane downgraded to a tropical depression, H1N1 influenza A has lost its pandemic status and is now just another troublesome flu bug as infection preventionists prepare for the annual outbreak season.
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Infection preventionists looking for guidance on discontinuing contact isolation for patients with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-Ab) remain in a quandary.
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Editor's note: This is part one of our coverage of a presentation on mentoring by Carolyn E. Jackson, RN, MA, CIC, infection preventionist at SHW Hadley Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility in Washington, DC. Jackson spoke recently in New Orleans at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). For part two of this story, see the next installment of Wisdom Teachers.
