Category: Infection Control

A new study found two in every five deaths in the Americas involved infection associated with antimicrobial resistance.

Another individual who contracted Klebsiella pneumoniae at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center has died, bringing the total to 10 patient deaths, the hospital confirmed July 27. 

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.