Tori Whitacre Martonicz, MA

Over 50 health care facilities from 35 countries participated from both higher and lower income settings.

Biosafety risks for patients with SARS-CoV-2 may be overlooked, and some control measures may bring about cross-contamination of the tests being done and cause biosafety accidents.

AMR and surgical site infections are a consistent issue for surgeries, and often surgeons feel they have done everything they can to reduce the risk, and yet the event still occurs with an alarming frequency. Is there anything novel that can be done? ICT® tries to find out.

Certain blood types in combination with Rh, race (Black patients and White patients), and pregnant or not pregnant demonstrated protection against the virus.

Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in health care facilities today.

Device-associated HAIs were likely impacted by the continued alteration of hospital practices that occurred throughout the pandemic.

Regardless of vaccination status, health care workers were protected with daily and regular hydrogen peroxide antisepsis.

However, respiratory HAVIs continued to be reported, despite elevated prevention practices, leaving young, susceptible patients threatened.

Patients with home infusion therapy have improved outcomes when home health care agencies and acute care facilities communicate relevant information on their shared patients.

Despite various techniques that health care facilities use to facilitate 100% hand hygiene compliance from their health care workers, barriers still must be overcome.

A new comprehensive article lays out best practice guidelines for 14 areas of infection prevention and control.

Infection preventionists in both the home health care and acute care settings need to communicate and collaborate with each other for the best outcome for the patient.

New study describes the case report and gives guidelines on how to prevent infection in the home.

The interprofessional team implemented multiple evidenced-based interventions that demonstrated sustained compliance.

Swiss hospital developed and implemented “Clean Hands,” and the results are significant over paper data collection.

Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc (CBIC) is debuting a new certification for infection preventionists (IPs) who work in long-term care (LTC) settings.

Sterile processing of robotic surgery instruments and other complex instruments require complex methods.

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PDI’s director of clinical affairs speaks with ICT® about the annual focus on the most fundamental way to protect patients and health care workers alike.

Candida auris environmental contamination is unlikely to be adequately controlled because re-contamination occurs within hours after disinfection.

A patient has a higher risk of infection of C difficile in a hospital bed that previously held a patient who also had C difficile.

Terra Kremer, the senior program manager of microbiological quality and sterility assurance at Johnson & Johnson, and technical lead of the Device Processing Tiger Team, spoke with ICT® about her research on time and efficiency of sterile processing and what is most affecting the industry today.

Total dissolved solids, pH levels, and iron levels are only a few components that must be considered.

Previously, reduction of other organisms, like VRE, C difficile, and MRSA had been demonstrated by this combination.

Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in health care facilities today.

Live attenuated influenza vaccine particles were released into a closed room to measure how many particles would get through the HVAC system.

One class of antibiotics being investigated is fluoroquinolones, but others will be studied soon.

However, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in health care is needed.

Patient pressure is a key driver of primary care providers to prescribe antibiotics.

Most information on SSI risk factors in the elderly is more than 10 years old.