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HAIs
The Infection Control Today® health care-acquired infections (HAIs) page presents updates on the latest techniques and strategies in the never-ending battle between infection preventionists and HAIs. Focusing on the latest in medical literature, we also present perspectives from the top infection preventionists and other medical experts in the country about how to put the growing knowledge of HAIs into use in the everyday world of infection prevention. Articles and videos often focus on methods to contain and control pathogens and multidrug-resistant organisms from spreading within the health care system.
Hot Topics in Infection Prevention: Syphilis Surges, While J&J Vaccine on Pause
April 16, 2021
The number of syphilis cases in 2000 raised hopes that it could be eradicated, but since 2015 cases have risen 74%.
Lessons Learned Pre-COVID-19 Used During Pandemic
April 16, 2021
The lessons infection preventionists at the University of Mississippi Medical Center learned from an outbreak of respiratory illness at the facility’s NICU in 2019, were later used to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Looking to Fit Ultraviolet Disinfection into Hospital Systems
April 16, 2021
Ultraviolet light should be used in concert with traditional cleaning and disinfection procedures utilized by environmental services teams, study’s author maintains.
Integrate HAI Tracking with Electronic Medical Records
April 16, 2021
The infection prevention and business intelligence teams at Piedmont Healthcare put their heads together to streamline the process of tracking health care-acquired infections.
Hot Water Might Disinfect Sinks Better Than Chlorine
April 15, 2021
Emilie Bédard, PhD: “We worked in collaboration with infection prevention, environmental services…. We had a multi-disciplinary team to make sure that we would look at all aspects of this approach.”
Quick Action Keeps NICU Respiratory Illness in Check
April 15, 2021
The multidisciplinary team included NICU nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners and, perhaps most important of all, environmental services personnel. “We met with the environmental services staff, and we explained to them that this is a critical situation in the neonatal ICU. And this cannot spread more.”
Overprescribing of Certain Antibiotics Might Cause C Diff
April 07, 2021
The study comes at a time when—despite all the attention and health care resources being thrown at COVID-19—medical experts have begun to turn a wary eye toward bacteriological pathogens.
Keep COVID-19 From Becoming a Health Care-Acquired Infection
April 02, 2021
When outbreaks have been reported in hospitals that are using universal masking, unmasked exposure to other health care workers is often the cause. Transmissions have been traced to break rooms and cafeterias.
Infection Preventionists Will Be Needed Even More After COVID
March 31, 2021
Priya Nori, MD: “The immediate thing that the health care industry has to grapple with, even as COVID hopefully starts to settle down after the mass vaccination campaign … [will be] superbugs.”
Pathogens Underfoot Can Floor Patients, Health Care Workers
March 28, 2021
Evidence shows that bacteria on floors can be resuspended into the air with a potential of inhalation, swallowing, or contamination of surfaces and hands.