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Patient Handwashing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The COVID-19 pandemic adds impetus to a longstanding mission of a nurse scientist: getting hospitalized patients to wash their hands. Somewhat surprisingly, this commonsense measure is not in effect at many facilities, although it is known that patients can contaminate their own invasive lines and self-inoculate infections.
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CMS Continues Infection Control Inspections for Coronavirus
The Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services continues to survey hospitals and long-term care facilities for infection control measures to prevent the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The inspections assess the basics of hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and staff education — things most facilities should be doing months into a pandemic.
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Trial by Fire: IPs Stand Fast Amid Unrelenting Pandemic
Infection preventionists are playing critical roles in the coronavirus response, raising the profile of a profession that will never be viewed quite the same again after having been forged in the crucible of the worst pandemic in a century.
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Advocates: Long-Term Facilities Remain Hot Spots for COVID-19
Persistent personal protective equipment and testing shortages exacerbate problems.
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Insulin Lispro-aabc Injection (Lyumjev)
Lyumjev is indicated to improve glycemic control in adults with diabetes mellitus.
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Clostridioides difficile: Risk Factors for Disease
Approximately one-tenth of asymptomatic patients with Clostridioides difficile colonization went on to develop disease. A wide range of antibiotic exposures represent a significant risk.
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Benefits of Exercise in Established Atrial Fibrillation
A large, long-term, prospective, Norwegian population study of patients with established atrial fibrillation revealed physical activity at or above recommended levels reduces all-cause and cardiovascular mortality vs. atrial fibrillation patients who are inactive.
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Eat Flavonoids for a Healthy Brain
An investigation of the Framingham Offspring Study revealed a higher intake of dietary flavonoids found in plants is associated with modest slowing of age-related dementia.
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Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
Neurological symptoms and impairments have been found in one-third of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from countries that have reported these observations so far. This is a rapidly evolving consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Androgen Deprivation Therapy and SARS-CoV-2
Cancer patients are at a higher risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 vs. non-cancer patients. However, prostate cancer patients who received androgen deprivation therapy seem to be partially protected from such infections.