A proposed guideline by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs includes the following key aspects, as outlined recently in Atlanta at a meeting of the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
New guidelines provide a simple response to occupational exposure to HIV: Take three anti-retrovirals as soon as possible and re-evaluate after 72 hours.
Imagine having to tell a neurosurgery patient that as a result of their recent procedure they may have been exposed via contaminated surgical instruments to the exceedingly rare but legitimately real risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
A recently published MRSA study showing a universal decolonization approach is more effective than active detection and isolation (ADI) has prompted critical questions from proponents of ADI.
