What antibiotic should I use to treat this patient’s Klebsiella pneumoniae? It’s resistant to carbapenems, and there’s a ...
Its spores are highly resistant to heat and many disinfectants, making them easily transmissible in hospitals.
Patients with hospital-acquired Stage IV bedsores require acute hospitalization and early surgical debridement, clinitron beds, medical optimization, wound preparation, and reconstructive surgery.” — ...
New York is the worst state to get sick in America, with medical expenses reaching $14,000 per person and emergency rooms ...
Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...
This guide deconstructs the pathophysiology of UTIs, exploring the anatomical risks in women, and the efficacy of antibiotic regimens ...
About one in every 31 hospital patients will pick up an infection in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research shows that being prescribed an opioid for ...
Saint-Louis Hospital AP-HP and Dassault Systèmes' augmented reality hospital simulation. Credit: Dassault Systèmes Dassault Systèmes and Saint-Louis Hospital AP-HP have developed a new augmented ...
New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...
A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals. The research ...