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New AORN Recommendations Include Discontinuing Use of Multidose Vials

Following months of research and evaluation, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has released “Recommended practices for medication safety.” Available in the association‟s newly released 2012 edition of Perioperative Standards and Recommended ...More

5 weeks ago

Posted in News, Policies and Practice

Older, Cheaper Vacuum Cleaners Release More Bacteria and Dust

Some vacuum cleaners — those basic tools for maintaining a clean indoor environment in homes and offices — actually contribute to indoor air pollution by releasing into the air bacteria and dust that can spread infections and trigger allergies, researchers report in a new ...More

January 4, 2012

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

New Material Helps Solve Problem of Contaminated Backboards

Some solutions are no-brainers. Take medical backboards, for example, those hard plastic boards used to stabilize patients during emergencies before the patient is lifted onto the gurney and hurried into the ambulance. After each call, technicians scrub down their equipment ...More

December 27, 2011

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions

Researchers Find That Organisms Persist on Paper, Transfer to Hands

Nils-Olaf Hubner, MD, an infection control consultant for the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald in Germany, and colleagues, sought to determine by laboratory investigation how long bacterial pathogens can ...More

December 15, 2011

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens

Microbial Contamination Found in Orange Juice Squeezed in Bars and Restaurants

Microbial contamination was found in orange juice squeezed in bars and restaurants. Scientists from the University of Valencia in Spain have analyzed fresh orange juice squeezed by machines in catering establishments. They have confirmed that 43 percent of samples exceeded ...More

December 14, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Acinetobacter Found Growing in Nearly Half of Infected Patient Rooms

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) was found in the environment of 48 percent of the rooms of patients colonized or infected with the pathogen, according to a new study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. The study ...More

November 1, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens

Hepatitis Transmission Risk in Nail Salons, Barbershops Needs to be Studied

The risk of hepatitis transmission through non-single use instruments –- such as nail files, nail brushes, finger bowls, foot basins, buffers, razors, clippers, and scissors –- during nail salon and barbershop visits cannot be excluded, according to the results of a new ...More

October 31, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Gas Pumps Among the Dirtiest Surfaces, Study Reveals

Just in time for cold and flu season, new testing in six major U.S. cities reveals that gas pump and mailbox handles may be among the dirtiest surfaces Americans touch. The results, released today by Kimberly-Clark Professional, show that more than 60 percent of gas pump ...More

October 25, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens, PPE & Standard Precautions

Insight Pharmaceuticals Issues Recall of Nasal Decongestant Due to Bacterial Contamination

Insight Pharmaceuticals, LLC of Langhorne, Pa., is recalling one lot (34,092 bottles) of Nostrilla Nasal Decongestant nasal spray to the consumer level, because it may contain the bacteria Burkholderia cepacia. Burkholderia cepacia may cause serious infection in individuals ...More

October 21, 2011

Posted in News

Single-Patient Rooms Decrease Acquisition of Resistant Pathogens

The role of intensive care unit (ICU) design and particularly single-patient rooms in decreasing bacterial transmission between ICU patients has been debated. Phillip D. Levin, of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in ...More

September 16, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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