
HICprevent
This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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CDC Draft Revamps Airborne Precautions, Calls for N95s
The “outdated dichotomy” of droplet-airborne precautions is history.
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Shoot The Three: Vaccines Ready For Flu, RSV, COVID
Unfortunately, vaccine apathy, hesitation and outright resistance have become the norm for millions of people.
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SCOTUS Race Ruling: Nurses 'Appalled,' Docs Call It 'Bad Medicine'
Dissenting Justice Ketanji Jackson says ruling amounts to 'let-them-eat-cake.'
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CAUTIs: What Not To Do
Urinary catheters left in place beyond their medical necessity become contaminated by handling and adjustments, seeding an infection in the patient.
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Climate Change Driving Emerging Infections
'It’s setting us up for increasing and worse pandemics.'
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‘It’s Alive’: Scabies Gets Under Your Skin
‘We definitely had a high anxiety situation’
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C. auris: Admission Screening Reveals Colonized Patients
'This admission screening project prevented multiple introductions.'
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Outbreak: A Bad Bug in a Burn Unit
Delayed diagnosis of presumed index patient leads to 3 cases, including 1 death
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New MRSA Compendium Revisits Contact Precautions
Still an 'essential' practice, don't modify without a risk assessment
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The Face of the ED Boarding Crisis Is a Child’s
'Child protective services failed wholly and utterly.'