Assessing Infection Prevention Programs in Nursing Homes
April 4th 2017At the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring 2017 Conference, Nimalie Stone, MD, MS, Team Lead, LTC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discussed infection prevention and control programs in nursing homes across the United States.
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How to Be Smarter About Testing for C. difficile
April 3rd 2017Belinda Ostrowsky, MD, MPH, Health Systems Director of Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship & Infection Prevention, Montefiore Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explains how to be more sensible when it comes to testing for Clostridium difficile.
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Reducing Respiratory Viral HAIs in Pediatric Healthcare Settings
April 3rd 2017Matt Linam, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, explains the best ways to reduce the number of respiratory viral healthcare-associated infections in children.
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How Behavior Change Strategies Can Help Prevent Hospital Infections
March 31st 2017On March 30, 2017, plenary speaker Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH, provided SHEA Spring 2017 Conference attendees with insight on how behavior change strategies play a part in infection prevention in hospital settings.
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Infection Prevention in Post–Acute Care Settings Versus Acute Care Hospitals
March 31st 2017Nimalie Stone, MD, MS, Team Lead, LTC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explores the differences in infrastructure for clinical care and infection prevention in post–acute care and long-term care settings as compared to acute care hospitals.
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Why Is There a Lack of Data on the Burden of HAIs in US Nursing Homes?
March 30th 2017Nicola Thompson, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the lack of data on the burden of healthcare-associated infections in US nursing homes.
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"Make Antibiotics Great Again:" A Reflection on Antibiotic Stewardship
March 30th 2017Sara Cosgrove, MD, MS, current president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), painted a picture of the new landscape of antibiotic stewardship in the Opening Plenary of the 2017 SHEA Spring Conference held in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Research Suggests Current NHSN CAUTI Definition May Not Reflect Clinical UTI in NSICU Patients
March 29th 2017New research suggests that the current National Health Safety Network (NHSN) catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) definition may not truly reflect clinical UTI in neurosurgical intensive care unit (NSICU) patients.
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Using Ceftazidime-Avibactam to Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
March 24th 2017Madeline King, PharmD, assistant professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, discusses her findings regarding patients treated with ceftazidime-avibactam for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections and carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas infections.
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New Technologies for Detecting Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Resistance
March 8th 2017Romney Humphries, PhD, D(ABMM), section chief of Clinical Microbiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, sat down with Contagion™ to discuss antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance and new technologies in the field.
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Modifying Prenatal Care for Pregnant Women with Antenatal Microcephaly
March 3rd 2017Prenatal care for pregnant women with antenatal Zika-related microcephaly needs to be modified to include conversations that include pregnancy options as well as neonatal specialty consultations that will address infant special care needs, economic burden, and other factors.
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Zika Infection Late in Pregnancy May Impact Fetal Neurologic Development
March 3rd 2017Carmen D. Zorrilla, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, shared her research which aimed to evaluate the growth patterns of fetuses whose mothers acquired Zika virus during pregnancy “and showed no prenatally detectable structural anomalies or maternal conditions that could affect fetal growth.”
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A Detailed Look at the Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil
March 2nd 2017Pedro Fernando de Costa Vasconcelos, MD, PhD, director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Arbovirus and Research, Evandro Chagas Institute, took a closer look at the Zika virus in Brazil during his presentation at The First International Zika Conference.
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