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A new superbug that is making its way aroung the world has been discovered. "British researchers are being credited with the discovery of new bacteria with the gene allowing it to produce an enzyme called New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1, or NDM-1." Two cases have been discovered in Canada.
The efficiency of antibiotics is decreasing due to the spread of a bacterial gene conferring high levels of drug resistance.
A new superbug that is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics has entered UK hospitals, experts warn.
Woman at Canadian hospital shares her story about her father dying from a severe blood infection linked to a Serratia marcescens outbreak in the hospital.
“Infection and related sepsis are the leading cause of death in noncardiac ICUs” according to a recent global study of hospital acquired infections. They empahsized that "little information has been available about the global epidemiology of infections in ICUs."
Coroner’s inquest into suicide of Ontario teen recommends sweeping changes to drug safety regulations
South African hospital reports that poor infection control contributed to the deaths of more than 100 babies at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital.
Checklists that spell out exactly how to care for patients with common conditions have dramatically reduced hospital deaths, say doctors.
At a conference in Scotland, experts warned that containing C-Difficile infections requires vigilance. "In Scotland C. diff has overtaken MRSA as the leading cause of deaths from hospital-acquired infections, and it is rapidly becoming resistant to antibiotic treatment."
By mapping MRSA cases in Europe, researchers were able to determine that MRSA occurs in geopgraphical clusters. They conclude that screening patients for MRSA is an effective strategy for limiting the spread which is mainly through health care networks and not in communities.
MRSA is mainly spread by patients moving between hospitals, Dutch researchers have said.
Canandian medical error survivor Rhonda Nixon organized “The Empowered Patient Conference: Including the Patient in Patient Safety” conference. Speakers included Helen Haskell and Julia Hallisey, authors of "The Empowered Patient."
"A team of researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston has proven scientifically that shared hospital rooms are a culprit in spreading superbugs. "
Researchers mapped the spread of MRSA and found it in clusters throughout Europe. They recommend screening of patients who are admitted to more than one hospital in Europe in order to contain its spread.
A condition that can result from hospital-borne infections is killing Canadians at a higher rate than strokes and heart attacks, according to a report released Thursday. Sepsis is the body's response to severe infection.
Scientist in the UK are going to use DNA as a way to track the origins of superbugs.
Report: Canada has high rate of deaths due to sepsis.
Infection is the biggest single cause of death in hospital intensive care units, according to a new worldwide study.
A study published in the December 2nd Journal of the American Medical Assn. by an international group of researchers examined data on 13,796 adult patients from 1,265 hospitals in 75 countries who were unlucky enough to be in an intensive care unit on May 8, 2007. Here’s a summary of what they found: Fifty-one percent of ICU patients had some sort of infection, the longer you’re in the hospital, the more likely you are to become infected. The mortality rate for ICU patients with an infection was 25%, compared with 11% for patients without an infection. Infection rates in North America were slightly below average, at 48%, but the lowest rate was in Africa, at 46%. The highest infection rate was 60%, found in Central and South America.
The number of cases of the hospital bug C.diff could be twice as high as previously thought as current tests used by the NHS are failing to pick up the infection, experts have claimed.
Woman enters hospital with broken arms and dies of a catheter-related infection.
This report is an overview of the national hand hygiene campaigns, but also regional activities, implemented in Europe since 2000.
Multidrug-resistant bacteria can be spread in the intensive care unit by portable X-ray machines and their operators, Israeli researchers found.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in hospitals impose significant economic consequences on the nation’s healthcare system.
A new research paper from the Canadian Union of Public Employees says that governments and employers must invest in cleaning and keep services public in order to stop unnecessary suffering and deaths.
New dress code for all National Health Services UK staff
Testimony by Jason George, legislative and political organizer for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49, before the MN House Health Policy Committee on hospital-acquired infections.
More than 290,000 surgical site infections occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend, on average, an additional 6.5 days in the hospital, are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge, and twice as likely to die.
Surgery patients are at risk for infection because surgical incisions create a pathway for germs to enter the body. Maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is therefore critical to protect patients from being contaminated with bacteria, which can lead to infection.
How well is your hospital, state and the nation as a whole are performing on three key practices that help prevent infections during surgery? Find out here »
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