Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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Addressing Racism and Microaggressions in Healthcare
Black women in healthcare face entrenched racism on a daily basis, from the death by a thousand cuts of microaggressions to the longstanding barriers to leadership positions.
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Pros and Cons of ‘Proning’ COVID-19 Patients in ICU
Many COVID-19 patients admitted for critical care may be periodically placed on their stomachs, a potentially life-saving course of treatment called “proning.” But proning makes intravenous lines difficult to access, drains patient oral secretions onto line sites, and increases the risk of some healthcare-associated infections.
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CDC Dental Infections Alert
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending treating dental unit waterlines and monitoring water quality after multiple outbreaks of nontuberculous Mycobacteria infections in children who received pulpotomies.
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CMS: Infection Preventionists Required in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized requirements in long-term care that call for at least a part-time infection preventionist and emphasizes Certification in Infection Prevention and Control as a key credential of expertise.
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Global Warming and Infectious Diseases
Professor: Global warming and climate change favor the continuing rise of pandemic viruses and multidrug-resistant bacteria.
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Better Diagnostics Equals Fewer Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescriptions
Researchers credit diagnostic stewardship as the top reason for an impressive reduction in needless antibiotic prescriptions.
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CDC: Monkeypox Causing Severe Infections, Test Patients for HIV
A severe spectrum of monkeypox disease is appearing in patients with untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge HIV testing for patients with monkeypox.
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Endemic Monkeypox? Overall Decline, but Persistence Likely
Although the most likely scenario is that monkeypox cases will fall significantly in the next few months, transmission in the United States is “unlikely to be eliminated in the near future,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Pandemic Puts Scientists, Medical Groups, Federal Agencies at Odds
Misinformation has been the enemy of truth during a pandemic that now has exceeded two years and taken a million lives, but there also has been genuine scientific disagreement that would seem inevitable given the many variables of the response.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Racial Research in IP & Control
As the first step in an ambitious research agenda to address healthcare racial inequities and hospital infections, Shanina Knighton, PhD, RN, CIC, is starting at ground zero: “hygiene poverty.”