Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients with Burns
“Vitamin D deficiency and supplementation has been studied extensively in various critically ill...
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Diabetes & Infection-Related Hospitalization
“Diabetes is widely thought to increase susceptibility to infection by impairing neutrophil...
Analyzing Serious Infections in Patients With Gout
Gout is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis in adults, and gout-related use of the...
Self-Adhesive Dressing Generates Electrical Current That Promotes Healing, Reduces Infection Risk
Good news for the millions of people who suffer from skin wounds that won’t heal. A team of...
Summary of New Healthcare Attire Guidelines
Are banning wrist watches and providing hooks for white coats realistic solutions for reducing...
Guideline Recommendations for Prosthetic Joint Infections
Research shows that as many as 20,000 of the nearly 1 million total hip arthroplasty (THA) and...
Critical Considerations for Blood Culture
Sepsis and septic shock are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: A Call to Action
Over the past 30 years, many multidrug-resistant organisms have emerged across healthcare settings in the United States. At the same time, there has been a dramatic drop in the development and approval of new antibiotics. “The...
Welcome Guidelines for Managing Rhinosinusitis
Recent estimates suggest that the direct annual costs of sinusitis are approximately $5.8 billion in the United States, and nearly one in seven Americans is diagnosed with a sinus infection every year. Rhinosinusitis is one of...
Admission Site Tied to Mortality in Sepsis
Admission for sepsis through the ED, when compared with direct admission to the hospital, appears to be associated with lower early and overall inpatient mortality. Results from a large national sample of hospitalizations with a...
A Multipronged Approach to Improve Hand Hygiene
A multipronged hand hygiene program that includes a multimedia communications campaign, education, leadership engagement, environment modification, team performance measurement, and feedback appears to be associated with...
Sepsis Care Improved in the ED
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate medical attention. The condition occurs when the body’s overwhelming immune response to infection triggers widespread inflammation that drops blood pressure and may...
