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Dialysis Organizations Team Up With CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is teaming up with a broad coalition of kidney and dialysis organizations to reduce the number ...read more

Limitations of Standard Precautions

The Standard Precautions concept in healthcare dictates that healthcare workers assess risk in advance of a patient interaction and use appropriate ...read more

Protect Yourself From Zika

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers suggestions on ways to protect yourself from Zika virus transmission. ...read more

Making the Business Case for Technology

Infection preventionists, environmental services directors, purchasing managers and members of the hospital C-suite are finding themselves at the ...read more

Medical Device Reprocessing

This symposium will address key issues such as the dangers associated with improperly processed devices; the real-world situations that impede proper ...read more

Latest Headlines

Survey Finds Women Taking the Risk of Flu More Seriously Than Men

A new American Red Cross poll shows that while concerns about exposure to the H1N1 influenza virus remain high, women are more likely than men to make extra efforts to cover coughs and sneezes with tissue, wash their hands more carefully and use hand sanitizer more often. ...More
October 21, 2009 Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Nurses Strike Looms as RNs to Protest Hospital Gaps in Flu Safety

As many as 16,000 registered nurses from three large Catholic hospital chains in California and Nevada will join a one-day strike and picket on Oct. 30, as RNs step up the protest over poor readiness by many hospitals to confront the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, the California ...More
October 21, 2009 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Major Swine Flu Outbreak is Opportunity to Study Virus Behavior

With the 2009 influenza season upon us, characterization of the epidemiology and duration of shedding for the nH1N1 virus is critical. Investigators from the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Epidemiology Consult Service capitalized ...More
October 20, 2009 Posted in News
Bacterial Contamination of Surgical Scrubs and Laundering Mechanisms: Infection Control Implications

By Carolyn L. Twomey, RN, BSN; Heather Beitz, BA, MEd; and Helen Boehm Johnson, MD Objective: To assess the bioburden associated with surgical scrub garments separated into eight categories based on single-use/re-usable status, use status (prior to use versus after ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in Articles, PPE & Standard Precautions
Hand Hygiene: Challenges and Strategies

Despite acknowledgement of the critically important role of hand hygiene in reducing the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms, overall compliance with hand hygiene is less than optimal in healthcare settings. This article addresses hand hygiene best practices, ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in Articles, Hand Hygiene
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Cost the U.S. Healthcare System in Excess of $20 Billion Annually

The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) and Cook County Hospital (currently John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County) announce the release of an eye-opening study on the economic impact of antibiotic overuse and antibiotic-resistant infections (ARIs) ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in News
CareFusion Shipping Ventilators to CDC for National Emergency Preparedness

CareFusion today announced it is shipping more than 3,900 CareFusion LTV® 1200 ventilators ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be included in the strategic national stockpile.The CDC ordered a total of 4,500 LTV® 1200 ventilators for ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in News
Hand Hygiene Measurement and Improvement Product Achieves New Milestone

Cognetive Systems, Inc. announces that its wireless sensor product used for hand hygiene measurement and improvement, Intelligent Hygiene, was utilized in a large scale research effort conducted jointly by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Unilever. The ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Study Shows Kimberly-Clark MicroCuff Endotracheal Tube Reduces VAP

Kimberly-Clark Health Care announces the presentation of data related to the Kimberly-Clark MicroCuff Adult Endotracheal (ET) Tube at the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA) meeting in New Orleans this week. The study, supported by an educational ...More
October 19, 2009 Posted in News
Clinical Features of Severe Cases of Pandemic Influenza

To gather information about the clinical features and management of pandemic influenza, the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a three-day meeting at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. Oct. 14-16. Findings and experiences were ...More
October 16, 2009 Posted in News