As bundles of severe echovirus infections pop up in at least three countries, U.S. infectious diseases experts are seeing a small increase in enterovirus cases, especially among children, NBC News reported July 6.
Category: Infection Control
CLABSI-free for 300 days: How a Virginia children's hospital did it
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova L.J. Murphy Children’s Hospital eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections among its patients for 300 days during 2021 and 2022.
MRSA guidelines revised for first time in 9 years
Cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, rose 41 percent during the pandemic and account for around 10 percent of hospital-associated infections. Its pandemic-induced rise has led experts to revise infection prevention …
US confirms 1st local malaria cases since 2003
Twenty years after the U.S. noted eight locally acquired malaria cases, Florida has confirmed four malaria infections and Texas has seen one in the last two months, the CDC said June 26.
Boston hospital unit reinstates masking amid COVID-19 outbreak
Officials at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are monitoring a COVID-19 outbreak among patients and staff members.
How Mount Sinai Beth Israel keeps 3 HAI rates hovering at zero
When it comes to healthcare-acquired infections, a perfect score is zero. But while trying to keep HAIs — such as central line bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and Clostridioides difficile infections — as low as poss…
How Cedars-Sinai is prepping teams ahead of the next pandemic
Teams at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai’s Marina del Rey Hospital will soon undergo emergency department drills that will focus on infection control and prevention efforts if — or when — a patient shows up with symptoms indicative of a highly con…
Physician viewpoint: Don't abandon hospital mask policies, make them strategic
Physicians from Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston published a dissenting opinion in the New England Medical Journal on the widespread removal of mask policies in medical settings ac…
Reduce HAIs by going 'back to basics' + VR training, RN says
Hospitals nationwide continue to see a rise in HAIs, and technologies to aid infection control are increasingly coming on scene to help, but one nurse says that a combination of going “back to basics” along with these new innovations may be the best wa…
St. Jude opens infectious disease research department
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is creating a new department to study how infectious disease agents interact with human hosts.
