Frank Diamond

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, MD, the director-general of WHO, said that “never has the threat of antimicrobial resistance been more immediate and the need for solutions more urgent."

The mixed-method, prospective, observational before-after study was performed in a large tertiary academic children’s hospital in the Netherlands and included a preintervention period and an intervention period.

The announcement could lead to interruptions in planned surgeries, according to the FDA. The gowns also provide barrier protection.

Both C. auris and carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter are quite hardy in the environment. It takes a lot to control spread.

Hand hygiene ambassadors in the lobbies of healthcare institutions are a big hit.

Symptoms include difficult breathing, fever in a baby who is younger than 2 months, a fever that lasts for 3 days or longer, or fever that doesn’t respond to fever-fighting medication.

On average, copper beds harbored 94% fewer bacteria than conventional beds.

Informatics can support patients at all stages of their experience by increasing awareness of UEs, encouraging intervention and resolution, detecting and managing invisible harms [such as emotional trauma], and reducing barriers and sharing report updates.

Investigators wanted to find out how well infection preventionists (IPs) are used in antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). They also sought out to take a look at what other members of ASPs think about IPs. The answer to both questions was “not much.”

Patients A and B were both older than 50, suffered from multiple comorbidities, and were residents of long-term care facilities. Both died.

Doffing protocols for treating patients with infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appear to help ward off other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but how potent that effect might be remains uncertain.

Further evidence of the importance of patient hand hygiene in the fight against hospital-acquired infections.

It’s not a cure for Clostridiodies difficile, but it’s certainly a huge step toward finding one for the deadly infection that claims 15,000 lives a year in the United States alone, according to investigators who say they have identified the toxin that the most virulent strains of C. diff releases.

Hybrid simulation models have a lot of potential to unlock the best approaches to combat healthcare-acquired infections.

Can silver-coated screens on resident physicians’ cell phones reduce microbial contamination?

Sarah Baron, MD, authored a study on asymptomatic C. diff carriers.

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) not only wards off antibiotics and what the body’s immune system throws at it, but it becomes even more lethal in doing so.