Now we’re talking Infection Control: Police Investigation into Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacterbaumannii Outbreak in Japan
Police Investigation into Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacterbaumannii Outbreak in Japan The Metropolitan Police Department has begun investigation on suspicion of manslaughter. So far, 3 cases of in-hospital infection involving malpractice have been accused and convicted in Japan. The authors of this article do not agree with this method but the authors of this blog do !! A [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )C. Diff on the Rise in Hospitalized Kids
Med Page Today Infection Control Clostridium difficile infection has risen dramatically among hospitalized children in the U.S., according to a nationally representative study. The number of cases rose 14.9% per year, more than doubling from 3,565 in 1997 to 7,779 in 2006 (P<0.001), Cade M. Nylund, MD, of the Uniformed Services University of the Health [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Researchers Discover Ease of Acinetobacter Transmission Via PPE, Unwashed Hands
Infection Control Today Items of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and gloves, as well as the unwashed hands of healthcare workers, are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which they say is more easily transmitted than previously thought. Daniel J. Morgan, MD, of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Study: Lax infection control at surgery centers
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson, Ap Medical Writer – Tue Jun 8, 6:12 pm ET CHICAGO – A new federal study finds many same-day surgery centers — where patients get such things as foot operations and pain injections — have serious problems with infection control. Failure to wash hands, wear gloves and clean blood [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Former nurse at Selly Oak Hospital claims patients were put at risk
A FORMER theatre nurse at Selly Oak Hospital claims patients, including injured soldiers, were put at unnecessary risk because hard-pressed staff regularly flouted basic infection, medical and safety rules. Karen Hall claims she saw medics eating sandwiches in operating theatres and failing to check if surgical instruments had been left inside patients. She has listed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Hospital Acquired Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Can be Controlled with Standard Measures
After years of obfuscating and claiming that Acinetobacter baumannii infections were some strange mystery we finally get a truth Hospital-Acquired Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Can Be Controlled With Standard Measures, Education: Presented at ICAAC By Ed Susman SAN FRANCISCO — September 13, 2009 — An education program plus utilisation of hand washing and other conservative approaches [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gut Harbors antibiotic resistance
The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University. They found more than 90 undiscovered bacterial genes capable of conferring antibiotic resistance hiding in microbes harvested from two healthy adults. They report their findings in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )KPC The Other Potential Pandemic
KPC: The Other Potential Pandemic–And We’re Completely Ignoring It From Mike the Mad Biologist n the midst of the concern about TEH SWINEY FLOO!, very few people (other than the Mad Biologist), have been discussing the double whammy of influenza followed by bacterial infections. A couple of years ago, I first started describing reports of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Germs and flu are up: infection control is down
Recession forces hospitals to cut back on superbug safety, survey says By JoNel Aleccia Health writer msnbc.com Even as the threat from drug-resistant germs continues to rise and a novel swine flu virus sweeps the country, U.S. hospitals are cutting back on staff and resources to battle potentially deadly patient infections.More than 40 percent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Florida vs. the Superbug
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article989567.ece MRSA killed Alonzo Smith, an 18-year-old football player from Liberty High School in Kissimmee last September. Smith follows a long line of football players who have been sickened after infection with MRSA, a highly resistant superbug. In fact, the National Football League was so concerned about the spread of MRSA in locker rooms that [...]
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