Infection Control Today: Features/Columns

Uncovering the Mystery of Type IV Allergies

Imagine a nurse, let’s call her Jill, who faces multiple scrub-ins everyday as part of her operating room (OR) role. She struggles with a rash on her hands and wrists that just won’t go away, causing both physical and emotional trauma. These recurring and often painful skin ...More

April 5, 2012

Posted in Articles, PPE & Standard Precautions

Re-engineering of Process and Culture Required to Rise to New Levels of Transparency, Patient Safety

Protecting patients from surgical and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is always part of the safety agenda at the National Patient Safety Foundation, says the organization’s president Diane Pinakiewicz. The organization has partnered with and supported the ...More

April 5, 2012

Posted in Articles

Experience is the Best Teacher, Even When It Comes to Legionella Risks

Since person-to-person spread does not occur with Legionella pneumonia, it remains one of the very few healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) linked exclusively to an environmental source – in this case, water. Unfortunately, the advantage of focusing prevention efforts on ...More

April 5, 2012

Posted in Articles, Environmental Hygiene

Examining SSI Prevention Measures According to the Evidence

With greater emphasis on translational research and evidence-based practices than ever before, there are interventions that seem to work better than others, although there is a wide margin for debate among experts. For example, Uçkay, et al. (2010) say that the pathogenesis ...More

March 9, 2012

Posted in Articles

Infection Prevention Experts Issue Call-to-Action to Reduce SSIs

A team of infection prevention experts has released a whitepaper, "Educate, Empower, Engage: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Call-to-Action for Reducing Surgical Site Infections," outlining potential solutions for preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) at healthcare ...More

March 9, 2012

Posted in Articles

Experts Share Insights on HAI Prevention

ICT asked a few of the authors of the whitepaper, "Educate, Empower, Engage: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Call-to-Action for Reducing Surgical Site Infections," to share their insights on key issues relating to HAI prevention. Our experts are: Richard P. Dutton of the ...More

March 9, 2012

Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice

SSI Prevention Pointers from Industry

ICT asked members of industry for their insights on surgical site infection (SSI) prevention. Surgical site infections (SSIs) can result from a variety of different scenarios such as the patient’s contaminated skin, poor sterilization and disinfection practices, or also ...More

March 9, 2012

Posted in Articles

Sharps Safety and OSHA Compliance: Staying on the Right Side of the Law

Despite legislation, regulation and stepped-up oversight and education campaigns by public and private sectors, needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries persist, although with variance in the rates depending on the healthcare setting. ...More

March 9, 2012

Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice

Understanding the Physiology of Healthcare Pathogens for Environmental Disinfection

As healthcare workers know, pathogens can survive in the environment for significant periods of time. And if surfaces are not cleaned and disinfected appropriately, these pathogens can be passed on to patients and hospital staff and cause significant, potentially fatal, ...More

February 23, 2012

Posted in Articles, Environmental Hygiene

Updating and Upgrading Device Reprocessing: AAMI/FDA Summit

In 2011, there were two events at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters where the key issues of medical device reprocessing were raised and discussed. The first event was put on by FDA staff, with an assist from the Association for the Advancement of Medical ...More

February 14, 2012

Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization

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