Showing posts with label Hospital-Acquired Infections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hospital-Acquired Infections. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Time to Eliminate Dangerous Injection Practices by Clinicians : Health in 30

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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Thanks to Laura Landro for shining light on unsafe injections in her WSJ blog , “Unsafe Injection Prac...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Hand sanitizers: don't kill MRSA or E. coli, says FDA - Health Key

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Hey, hand sanitizers. You can only do so much – and preventing MRSA infection isn’t one of those things -- so stop over-promising! That was...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in US Meat and Poultry

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Abstract We characterized the prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility profiles, and genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus among US meat and p...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Hospital scrubs and sandwiches should not mix | Reporting on Health

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You probably have been to a restaurant near a hospital (or a café inside a hospital) and seen a doctor, nurse or medical assis...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Hospital Acquired Infections Becomes A Leading Cause In Patient Deaths | OneMedPlace

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Patients today are between a rock and a hard place because when they get sick a hospital may be the last place they want to go. Hospital Ac...
Friday, April 1, 2011

MRSA Protocols- Are They Being Used In Practice? | Registered Nurse Blog

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Posted: April 2nd, 2011 In Advance For NPs and PAs, a March 9, 2011 article was featured on the following study of protocols used ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hospital worker had deadly blood infection

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All Children's Hospital has contacted all the families whose children were exposed to an outpatient therapist who died Monday from a c...

How safe is your hospital? - chicagotribune.com

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Just before it was disclosed that a medical error at the University of Chicago led to the death of James Tyree, a well-known financier and...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Education Resources, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc APIC |

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APIC works to provide information to both the general public and healthcare professionals. The brochures on this page are regularly rev...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

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An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Sponge Count Off, Patient Develops Sepsis, Surgeon Blames Nurse.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Antiseptic baths 'reduce infection risk' | News | Nursing Times

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Using 2% chlorhexidine gluconate cloths for the daily bathing of inpatients, instead of soap and water, reduces the risk of hospital-acquir...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Released hospital patients' many unhappy returns

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Patients who are released from the hospital too early or without proper planning and instructions often wind up back in the hospital after ...

C. Difficile Spreads from Hospital to Community, ACG from MedPage Today

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Clostridium difficile infection has spread from the hospital to the community but has proved manageable thus far, according to data report...

Sick doctors who work are doing more harm to their patients than good

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Doctors: if you’re sick, don’t go to work. The stereotype of doctors is that they go to work, despite whatever symptoms ail them. Calling ...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Balancing infection control with the patient experience, KevinMD.com

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by Kevin Pho, MD Hospitals have recently been stepping up their infection control procedures, in the wake of news about iatrogenic infectio...