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Veteran surgeon Ramon Berguer, MD, routinely stitches up patients in suture seams as tight as a quarter-inch or less, with the needle tip drawing perilously close to his gloved opposite hand. Occasionally it hits with the force to cause a needlestick, but what results is not an injury but a memory.
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Beyond the logistical disincentives, hassles and headaches of reporting to employee health after an injury in the operating room there is the chilling stigma of what the surgeon may find out about herself and possibly be obligated to tell future patients: "I'm HIV-positive."
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Your infection prevention and control program is textbook perfect. You have verified that each little nuance of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Conditions of Participation, The Joint Commission accreditation requirements, and your state licensing rules, are covered in policy, procedure, and program(s).
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After an economic wildfire that swept through health care and laid waste to entire industries in other sectors, infection preventionsts may be a little singed around the edges but they're still standing.
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HIV clinicians often work with patients who have such an overwhelming number of barriers to optimal treatment adherence that it's difficult to know where an adherence intervention should begin.
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Good news for prevention of HIV and other STDs as a new year dawns. The second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available for purchase in the United States, which gives American women a nonlatex, female-controlled option in disease protection.
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The authors describe a fatal case of H1N1 pandemic influenza A associated with pneumonia, which resulted in respiratory and renal failure in a 39-year-old HIV-positive woman.
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On Nov. 5, 2009, using expedited review procedures developed to support the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), granted tentative approval for lamivudine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate fixed dose combination tablets, 300mg/300mg.
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Fatigue is such a common complaint among HIV patients that it's often ignored or expected in clinical care.
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Screening STD clinic patients especially men who have sex with men (MSM) for signs of an acute, highly transmissable stage of HIV infection could heighten detection and prevention efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
