Patient Isolation Articles & Analysis: Older
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It is both incredibly resilient and infectious. If contracted, patients must undergo involved care which often includes powerful antibiotics that come with their own detrimental effects to the patient. Thus, hospitals have taken a wide range of strategic infection protocol steps to curb the spread of the disease, including HVAC systems with germicidal UVC light ...
Damman Central Hospital Located in Dammam, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia A Government hospital, under Ministry of Health KSA Number of beds: 451 Challenge When the MERS epidemic struck Saudi Arabia, hospitals were not ready for the amount of patients that desperately needed isolation rooms. That was not the only challenge they were facing. In ...
Other testing methods for Legionella, such as culture testing, are important during investigations when genetically linking patient and environmental Legionella isolates. Unfortunately, culture testing requires samples to be shipped off to a lab and can take 14 days to get results. ...