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As recurrent hepatitis outbreaks continue in ambulatory care nationally, there are increasing calls for more oversight and training for health care workers in those settings.
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You've no doubt noticed that infection prevention is not convenient for those that work at the bedside. Professional frontline staff may not use the word "inconvenient" to describe their frustrations, yet the verbal message leaves little doubt when accompanied by wearisome body language.
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The recently finalized federal stimulus bill includes $1 billion to fund prevention and wellness programs, with $50 million going to states to implement health care-associated infection (HAI) reduction strategies.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is urging patients to heighten awareness and become quite inquisitive before undergoing outpatient care.
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After a spate of measles cases and outbreaks in 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drafting a new recommendation that would tighten the criteria for measles immunity in health care workers.
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Such a confluence of events and unpredictable circumstances e.g, host factors, medical interventions can result in a health care-associated infection that, despite the best efforts of all involved, the patient suffers and the IP is left to ponder the "whys" and "what ifs."
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a patient with acute shortness of breath. The QRS complex was recognized to be wide, and the clinical question raised was whether the patient should be immediately shocked. How would you respond?
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Erythromycin, 250 mg bid, reduced the number of exacerbations in patients with moderate COPD over a 1-year period.
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In a multicenter, prospective, randomized study of Japanese Type 2 diabetic patients, low-dose aspirin as primary prevention did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events.
