NYC Health + Hospitals led clinicians through a Marburg virus training Aug. 2 to test the health system’s “ability to identify and isolate ‘patients’ with simulated Marburg virus symptoms and safely transport them,” using hazmat suits and proper infect…
Baton Rouge, La.-based Our Lady of the Lake Health has deployed a diagnostic tool capable of detecting sepsis within 10 minutes in the hopes of saving lives from what is often dubbed a “silent killer” in hospital environments — causing 1 in 3 hospital …
At Northwell Health, leaders don’t discount the rare causes or sources of hospital-acquired infections.
After dozens of hospitals ended their masking policies, organizations are working to promote masking in healthcare again.
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis created a breath test that can identify people with COVID-19 infections in less than a minute.
An employee at Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care has tested positive for tuberculosis, the academic health system said July 27.
A new anesthesiologist-led approach to reducing surgical site infections and length of hospital stays in colorectal patients resulted in a 50 percent decrease in infection instances and a 46 percent decrease in stay length, according to new research fr…
VCU researchers found that loss of smell and taste are no longer common symptoms of COVID-19.
Experts from five national medical groups partnered to revise infection prevention strategies in acute care settings, which were published July 11 in the Journal of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have built an air sensory system capable of detecting any of the known COVID variants that may be inside a room in real-time, according to a July 10 news release.
